Attribution and geographic context
Thomas von Rintelen — Germany
Source-documented role
2007/2010 evolutionary work and field observations cited in IUCN assessments.
Limits
Taxonomic/evolutionary researcher, no personal commercial breeding record claimed.
References
- von Rintelen et al. 2007 Lake Poso colour and cryptic diversity
Voucher-based mtDNA study distinguishing formerly lumped ensifera colour forms; Do not treat ornamental blue/red grades as single-species color inheritance
- von Rintelen et al. 2010 ancient Malili adaptive radiation
Peer-reviewed mitochondrial phylogeny and substrate counts for 15 endemic taxa; 2010 lake-wide sample; two colonization events, one producing 14 taxa, without a validated chromosome-level or hobby mating tree
- IUCN 2018 Cardinal shrimp C. dennerli assessment
Red List original CR possibly extinct in wild based on 2017/18 nondetections; Snapshot assessment based on historical surveys; superseded for detection by more recent NGO report but not formally recategorized here