Classification and published species name
Caridina venusta — formally described 2008
Picture-style taxon evidence tree
Wild distribution context
Southern China
Diagnosis and study methods
The 2014 taxonomic revision treated Caridina tumida as a junior synonym of C. venusta based on comparison.
Taxonomic history and relationships
Synonymy is a scientific naming relationship between taxon names, not a reproductive hybrid or color-line cross.
Aquarium trade and false look-alikes
Group placement and individual stock identity should not be extrapolated from a seller's label.
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
- Klotz & von Rintelen (2014), three ornamental-associated Caridina taxa
Peer-reviewed species descriptions; morphology and mtDNA field sampling