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#1 · (Edited)
Hey guys!

I do a good bit of reading online, and I found a text file hidden away on this web page with a list of many of the crustaceans we keep. It seems like this could be a helpful tool, so I figured I would post it here.

Again, I did not compile this.

If you'd like me to add something or change something, or you just really like it, say so!

Thanks,
Mark

Shrimp:

  • ''Atyaephyra desmaresti'', Iberian/European dwarf shrimp
  • ''Atyoida pilipes'' Green lace shrimp
  • ''Atyopsis moluccensis'', Bamboo Shrimp
  • ''Caridina babaulti|Caridina cf. babaulti var. green'', green shrimp
  • ''Caridina babaulti|Caridina babaulti var. malaya'', malayan dwarf shrimp
  • ''Caridina babulti|Caridina babaulti var. stripes'', striped shrimp
  • ''Caridina gracilirostris'', red nose shrimp
  • ''Caridina gracilirostris|Caridina cf. gracilirostris'', white-nose Shrimp
  • ''Caridina multidentata'', Amano shrimp
  • ''Caridina cf. cantonensis var. bee'', bee shrimp
  • ''Caridina cf. cantonensis var. blue tiger'', blue tiger shrimp
  • ''Caridina cf. cantonensis var. crystal black'', crystal black shrimp
  • ''Caridina cf. cantonensis var. crystal red'', crystal red shrimp
  • ''Caridina cf. cantonensis var. tiger'', tiger shrimp
  • ''Caridina cf. propinqua'', tangerine shrimp
  • ''Caridina cf. serrata var. chinese zebra'', Chinese zebra shrimp
  • ''Caridina sp.'', Indian Dwarf Shrimp
  • ''Caridina sp.'', Indian Whitebanded Shrimp
  • ''Caridina woltereckae'', Sulawesi harlequin shrimp
  • ''Caridina dennerli'', Sulawesi cardinal shrimp
  • ''Caridina cf. breviata'', bumblebee shrimp
  • ''Caridina|Caridina sp.'', black midget shrimp
  • ''Caridina serratirostris'', Ninja Shrimp
  • ''Caridina pareparensis parvidentata'', malawa shrimp
  • ''Caridina simoni simoni'', Sri Lankan


    Dwarf shrimp:

  • ''Desmocaris elongata'', Guinea Swamp Shrimp
  • ''Euryrhynchus amazoniensis'', Amazon zebra shrimp
  • ''Halocaridina rubra'', Hawaiian Red shrimp (brackish, but can be acclimated to freshwater)
  • ''Macrobrachium assamensis'', Red claw shrimp
  • ''Macrobrachium dayanum'', Rusty longarm shrimp
  • ''Macrobrachium eriocheirum'', Fuzzy claw shrimp
  • ''Macrobrachium faustinum'', Caribbean longarm shrimp
  • ''Macrobrachium kulsiense'', Sand shrimp
  • ''Macrobrachium lanchesteri'', a.k.a. ''Cryphiops lanchesteri'', Riceland prawn
  • ''Micratya poeyi'', Caribbean dwarf filter shrimp
  • ''Neocaridina davidi (wild type)'', Wild type cherry shrimp
  • ''Cherry shrimp|Neocaridina davidi var. red'', Cherry shrimp
  • ''Neocaridina davidi var. yellow'', Yellow shrimp
  • ''Neocaridina davidi var. blue'', Taiwan Pale Blue Shrimp
  • ''Neocaridina palmata'', Marbled dwarf shrimp
  • ''Blue pearl shrimp|Neocaridina cf. palmata var. blue pearl'', Blue pearl shrimp
  • ''Snowball Shrimp|Neocaridina cf. zhangjiajiensis var. white'', Snowball shrimp
  • ''Palaemonetes ivonicus'', amazon glass shrimp
  • ''Palaemonetes paludosus'', American ghost (glass, grass) shrimp
  • ''Palaemonetes varians'', European ghost shrimp
  • ''Potamalpheops sp.'', purple zebra shrimp
  • ''Triops australiensis'', Australian tadpole shrimp
  • ''Triops cancriformis'', horseshoe shrimp
  • ''Triops longicaudatus'', longtail tadpole shrimp
  • ''Xiphocaris elongata'', Yellow nose shrimp


    Crayfish:

  • ''Procambarus alleni''
  • ''Procambarus clarkii'' Red Swamp Crayfish
  • ''Procambarus sp. Marmorkrebs''


    Marble Crayfish:

  • ''Cherax destructor''
  • ''Cherax quadricarinatus''
  • ''Cambarellus montezuema''
  • ''Cambarellus shufeldtii''
  • ''Cambarellus patzcuarensis'' Dwarf Crayfish
  • ''Pacifastacus leniusculus'' Signal Crayfish


    Branchiopods:

  • ''Artemia franciscana'', San Francisco brine shrimp
  • ''Artemia salina'', Utah salt lake brine shrimp
  • ''Artemia nyos'', Sea Monkeys
  • ''Parartemia zietziana'', Sea Dragons
  • ''Artemia sp.'', Siberian brine shrimp
  • ''Lepidurus apus'', golden tadpole shrimp
  • ''Triops longicaudatus'', longtail tadpole shrimp
  • ''Triops australiensis'', Australian tadpole shrimp
  • ''Triops cancriformis'', European tadpole shrimp
  • ''Thamnocephalus sp.'', beavertail fairy shrimp
  • ''Streptocephalus sp.'', redtail fairy shrimp
  • ''Streptocephalus sp.'', dry lake fairy shrimp
  • ''Brachinecta sp.'', winter fairy shrimp
  • ''Daphnia'', water flea
  • ''Moina'', Japanese water flea
  • ''Diplostraca'', clam shrimp


    Mollusca|Gastropods:


  • ''Asolene spixi'' (apple snail)
  • ''Marisa cornuarietis'' (apple snail)
  • ''Planorbis'' species (standard ramshorn snails)
  • ''Pomacea bridgesii'' (apple snail)
  • ''Pomacea canaliculata'' (apple snail)
  • ''Physa'' species (bladder, tadpole and physa snails)
  • ''Lymnaeidae'' (pond and melantho snails)
  • ''Lymnaea stagnalis'' (great pond snail)
  • ''Planorbarius corneus'' (Great Ramshorn)
  • ''Melanoides tuberculata'' (Malaysian trumpet snail)
  • ''Melanoides granifera'' (spike tailed trumpet snail)
  • ''Viviparus malleattus'' (Japanese trapdoor snail)
  • ''Clithon corona'' (horned nerite snail)
  • ''Neritina natalensis'' (zebra nerite snail)
  • ''Vittina semiconica'' (red onion or tire tracked nerite snail)
  • ''Neritina reclivata'' (olive nerite snail)
  • ''Nepterion violaceus'' Red Lips (Red lips neritine snail)
  • ''Septaria porcellana'' (freshwater limpet)
  • ''Neritina'' sp. (mosaic nerite snail)
  • ''Neritina'' sp. (tribal nerite snail)
  • ''Brotia pagudola'' (horned armour snail)
  • ''Pachymelania byronensis'' (west African freshwater snail)
  • ''Neritina puligera'' (dusky nerite)
  • ''Paludomus sulcatus'' (bella snail)
  • ''Thiara cancellata'' (hairy tower lid snail)
  • ''Taia naticoides'' (piano snail)
  • ''Brotia herculea'' (giant tower cap snail)
  • ''Planorbella duryi'' (miniature red ramshorn snail)
  • ''Tylomelania'' species (Tylo or Sulawesi snails)
    • ''Tylomelania sp. Poso'' Yellow
    • ''Tylomelania sp. Poso'' Orange Flash
  • ''Tylomelania patriarchalis'' (black Sulawesi snails)
  • ''Cipangopaludina leucythoides'' (tiger tuba snail)
    Bivalves:
  • ''Corbicula fluminea'' (Asian clam)
 
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#8 ·
Didn't bump for over two months. People suggested this was a useful list, and I didn't want it to be buried.

I was under the impression Cardinia were a tad bit bigger than neos.
 
#10 ·
Not too sure. I think the list should either be copy pasted into a sticky or something like it.

I could make it a goal to add pictures to each species.. Hmm
 
#12 ·
I noted that I didn't create it, but the source was obscure and the author unclear. I often just copy paste things into a folder of documents to read later.

Didn't know there was a thread like that bouncing around.

What names have been changed?
 
#21 ·
#16 ·
Very nice. Did you just copy paste the list into google?

Google is my friend. It is where I chanced upon it before. I read a lot.

I've never pasted something so long into google.
 
#19 ·
Mark - thanks for the useful list. I added it to the forum sticky.

Three things I wanted to mention...
  • If you find a source, please reference it in your OP
  • Consider improvements to the formatting - make it a real bullet list, remove asterisks, change the latin names to italic, etc for easier readability.
  • I am not locking the thread since I feel the related discussion is usually beneficial. However, if it starts to get off-topic it will get cleaned up and locked.
 
#20 ·
Sounds great. Appreciate it very much. I'll be searching for the original source in my history, but I assume it'll come up fruitless. I'll also copy paste it like it was suggested in the thread.

I'll be happy to reformat it here soon.
 
#27 · (Edited)
Perhaps these could be added to the list if they're not already there?

Limnopilos naiyanetri (Thai micro crab)
Lumbriculus variegatus (California blackworm)
Atya gabonensi (viper shrimp)
Cherax holthuisi (sunbolt fire lobster)
Cherax tenuimanus (marron)


I've also seen at my LFS a species that was sold under the name 'Pygmy Sunkist Lobsters' which were slightly less than an inch on and which the owner said were already at their full size. Can't find any info on it so I have my doubts on whether or not they were fully grown or even a legitimate pygmy species/subspecies.
 
#30 ·
I'd rather have fish profiles added to the website than just a list in a thread. Not sure if anyone is still in charge of approving those though since new profiles are not coming up but that seems it would be the most helpful way to find the info.
 
#32 · (Edited)
I know you didn't compile it, but I'm not sure how helpful a list like this is, especially when it (A) lists rarely available species that are all but nonexistent in the aquarium trade like Micratya poeyi (not once imported to the U.S. for sale as far as I know) alongside hobby standards, (B) intermingles color variants and taxonomically doubtful or meaningless trade names like Neritina sp. ("tribal nerite snail") with actual species or even entire genera or families, and (C) doesn't have descriptions or photos.

I mean, at the point that you name Macrobrachium faustinum, you might as well list all of the 250+ species of Macrobrachium. Lots of issues with the categories, too … Triops are branchiopods … "Marble Crayfish" is a wholly arbitrary division and a strange repurposing of a common species name … you get the picture.

It wouldn't be constructive for me to go on in this vein, so – focusing just on the shrimp – I'm including some species lists (provisional and probably incomplete, but with some taxonomic revision histories) for some of the more popular genera:

Family Atyidae (full list of genera here)

Superfamily Palaemonoidea:

Family Palaemonidae sampler (going to spare you all and not get into Pseudopalaemon and so on … and I think you can find Palaemon on your own – but you should realize that most of those aren't freshwater, strictly speaking)

Family Euryrhynchidae (only one genus really gets into the aquarium trade)

Family Desmocarididae

Realize those are species – not color morphs (which are just subsets, whether selectively bred lines or more natural divisions, of species). The diversity of these groups is astounding – probably much vaster than many posters here might have imagined – and (while a fair number might have at least shown up for sale somewhere at some point) the great majority of these species have never been established in the aquarium trade.

Some excerpts from a good review ("Global diversity of shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) in freshwater") by Grave & Anker (2008), which I can share with you in full off-site if you PM me with your email:

A total of 655 freshwater species (just over a quarter of all described carideans ) are presently known.

Freshwater species of carideans belong to eight families/subfamilies, numerically dominated by the Atyidae, with 359 species/subspecies (Table 1). Although this family is considered in many textbooks as restricted to freshwater habitats, some anchialine genera are known (e.g. Antecaridina, Halocaridina, Typhlatya), whilst juveniles of Atya have been found under fully marine conditions in Atlantic waters.

Although the most speciose genus Caridina occurs in six biogeographic regions, many genera and species are either only known from their type locality or have a narrow geographical distribution (e.g. Lancaris is restricted to Sri Lanka, see Cai & Bahir, 2005). Some species are morphologically adapted to live in fastflowing water, such as the Caribbean Atya scabra (Leach), which lives beneath rocks under waterfalls and in rapids, whilst other species, such as many Caridina species are adapted to lakeshore weed beds, usually displaying a more gracile habitus. Cave dwelling taxa are well represented with many exclusively stygobiont genera. Of particular ecological interest are the only two freshwater commensal species (a widespread mode of life in marine shrimp species): Limnocaridina iridinae Roth-Woltereck from the mantle cavity of a unionid clam from Lake Tanganyika (Roth-Woltereck, 1958) and a Caridina species from Lake Towuti in Sulawesi living with freshwater sponges (Cai, pers. obs.).

The second most speciose family is the Palaemonidae (Table 1), with many more marine and brackish water species known than there are freshwater taxa, all of the latter being restricted to the subfamily Palaemoninae. The numerically dominant genus is Macrobrachium, restricted to fresh and brackish water […]. Other species-rich genera are Palaemonetes, a taxonomically poorly defined world-wide genus, and Palaemon. Some species of Palaemonetes are exclusively freshwater, such as the North American Palaemonetes kadakiensis Rathbun, but several estuarine species can tolerate fully freshwater conditions. Several species of Palaemon have also been recorded from marine, brackish and freshwater environments, e.g. Palaemon concinnus Dana (see Marquet, 1991).

It is difficult to estimate the true species richness of freshwater shrimps, as every year new taxa continue to be described, mainly in the two most numerically dominant genera, Caridina and Macrobrachium. As a result, species discovery curves are not flattening out (Fig. 2), and it can be expected that many more species await discovery. New genera also continue to be erected, for instance for morphologically disparate species previously placed in Caridina (e.g. the genera Lancaris, Sinodina, Paracaridina). Genetic studies have only recently started in freshwater shrimps, with for instance the work of Baker et al. (2004) highlighting the presence of several cryptic lineages in Australian Paratya, some of which may well represent true species.



 
#44 · (Edited)
I think the list compiled in the first post applies to the ones people often keep in the aquarium hobby. "...a list of many of the crustaceans we keep."
The thing is, it's just bizarre to list things as obscure or rare as Parartemia zietziana or Micratya poeyi (which are essentially not in the hobby at all) and omit much more common animals (only two species of Cherax?). If the cutoff is having been kept in an aquarium by someone, somewhere, then I personally can add a lot more to this list, but I really don't see the point in having it if it lacks basic descriptions, photos, or care information.

This list is a mishmash of names, some of them one-off imports by Aquarium Glaser or other European suppliers that never showed up in the U.S. (and aren't exactly often kept in Germany either) that's just plain inaccurate or misleading at many levels. Glancing through it, Triops are not decapods, let alone shrimp (I don't get how they were binned as "dwarf shrimp" when they even went to the trouble of making the Branchiopoda category where they would actually belong – this is worse than having a list of "aquatic frogs" that also lists "Portuguese Water Dog") … Macrobrachium dayanum, another "dwarf shrimp", is neither related to the small algae-eating atyids nor particularly small or similar in behavior.

I'm sure that the people who compiled and updated this list were well-meaning, but it's clear that people would benefit more from something closer to actual species profiles. You can find some fine ones at the Petshrimp.com descriptions page or, if you're interested in browsing through a broader range of species, wirbellose.de … another kind of random conglomeration, with some inaccuracies … but at least showing photos and some amount of description (in German – Google Translate should do an okay job).

Crusta10.de used to have a nice gallery of species, but the site stopped being maintained and it appears that the domain expired.
 
#40 ·
I know about that existing. You are saying all the profiles should go there instead of a thread right? That would require someone who wanted to stay on top of that and add photos, stay on top of every name change, etc. And honestly, I use other sites for that. I think I looked at that shrimp profiles page twice since I've been here. I send people to www.shrimpery.com, planetinverts, etc. Heck the info on those sites is good and still could use updating and changing.

I'm with you, I'd rather have a page listing the species, requirements, photos etc than a thread but unless someone is just jumping on getting that data up, asking however many folks for permission to use their photos, etc, then I doubt that will get tackled anytime soon. Look at post #32. Of course, I'm sure if you wanted to take on such a project you could have a chat with the mods and hop right on that :) Even with just popular species aquarists keep that list would still be pretty long.
 
#41 ·
Just saying if mods/admins approved profiles people submit, and more people added profiles for ones they keep that are missing it could become a great resource. People are able to comment on each profile so updates could be added there. Members are also allowed to add their photos even if they don't write the profile.
 
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