Short, J. W., 1993. Caridina zebra, a new species of freshwater atyid shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda) from northeastern Queensland rainforest.

A new species of freshwater atyid shrimp, Caridina zebra (Arthropoda: Crustacea: Decapoda: Pleocyemata: Caridea: Atyidae), from high altitude (>400 m) rainforest, northeastern Queensland, is described and illustrated. It is allied to the typus species-group, characterised by a short, dorsally unarmed rostrum and most closely resembles the wide-ranging species, C. typus H. Milne Edwards, 1837. Morphology of the rostrum and telson, and the large size of developed ova (1.1 mm length), a feature indicative of abbreviated or direct larval development readily distinguish it from C. typus. A distinctive black and white banded pattern distinguishes C. zebra from all known Indo-West Pacific species.