Critically Endangered
Caridina loehae
Caridina loehae
Caridina loehae is a freshwater shrimp from Sulawesi.
The crayfish or crab
Caridina loehae is a decapod crustacean in the family Atyidae (order Decapoda).
Range and habitat
It is known as mini blue bee and orange delight shrimp in the aquarium trade. It is endemic to the Malili lake system.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Freshwater crayfishes and crabs walk the bed. Dams, silt, and introduced species cut a drainage into fragments they cannot cross.
Crayfishes and crabs need cover and clean water. A named form from one creek is not interchangeable with the next drainage.
In crisis
This species is currently under threat by pollution from human activities and a nickel mine and introduced fish like the flowerhorn cichlid and pacu.
Caridina loehae is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Caridina loehae, Wikidata item Q13455920. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
