Classification and published species name
Caridina ngankeeae — formally described 2024
Picture-style taxon evidence tree
Wild distribution context
Hong Kong
Diagnosis and study methods
2024 Zootaxa original diagnosis uses armed rostrum, stylocerite, uropodal diaeresis and comparative pereiopod / male pleopod structures.
Taxonomic history and relationships
Described July 2024 in a region where similarly appearing Caridina historically needed careful separation.
Aquarium trade and false look-alikes
A wild species, not established as an ornamental breeder strain or a parent of Taiwan Bee.
Controlled breeding outcome counts
Not a controlled ornamental-breeding study
Molecular color gene evidence
No peer-reviewed commercial color locus assigned to this name by cited taxonomic sources
Conservation / handling caveat
Research identification of a wild species is not a commercial availability announcement. Avoid collecting, purchasing undocumented wild specimens or inferring permissive collecting regulations.
Claim-level original references
- Chow, Chan & Tsang (2024), Caridina ngankeeae original description
Peer-reviewed original morphological taxonomy and species diagnosis
- Chow, Chan, Leung & Tsang (2026), three cryptic Hong Kong Caridina
Peer-reviewed original integrative taxonomy, COI and 16S mitochondrial sequences; includes three new species and a nonmonophyly finding