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Genetic assessment of the rare freshwater shrimp Caridina logemanni endemic to Hong Kong and its hybridisation with a widespread congener

Lai Him Chow A , Ling Ming Tsang A , Ka Hou Chu https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8107-5415 A and Ka Yan Ma https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5690-2319 A B *
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A Simon F. S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, PR China.

B School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, PR China.

* Correspondence to: majx26@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Handling Editor: Max Finlayson

Marine and Freshwater Research 73(4) 491-502 https://doi.org/10.1071/MF21192
Submitted: 25 June 2021  Accepted: 29 November 2021   Published: 13 January 2022

© 2022 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing.

Abstract

The lack of information is one of the major impediments to effective conservation of rare, endemic species. One of which concerns the freshwater atyid shrimp Caridina logemanni known only from three streams in Hong Kong, with an area of occupancy of less than 20 km2, further threatened by harvesting for aquarium trade and potential introgressive hybridisation with a ubiquitous congener C. cantonensis. Here, we delineated the genetic diversity and population structure of C. logemanni, and examined its extent of hybridisation with C. cantonensis, using one mitochondrial (COI), one nuclear (NaK intron) and six microsatellite markers. The two examined populations of C. logemanni exhibited strong genetic differentiation at a spatial scale of <1.5 km apart, and generally low genetic diversity. Historic introgressive hybridisation is evident from the sharing of COI haplotypes between species and the more extensive inter-specific microsatellite admixture than inter-population admixture, such that both C. logemanni populations were of hybrid origin. Future conservation efforts on C. logemanni should aim at (1) minimising waterway modifications to prevent potential anthropogenic hybridisation, (2) fortifying conservation legislations to stop its harvesting, and (3) conducting continuous monitoring in case of stochastic events associated with small population size and linear habitat.

Keywords: anthropogenic disturbance, Atyidae, aquarium trade, Caridea, Caridina logemanni, conservation, Decapoda, freshwater shrimp, introgressive hybridisation, population genetics, threatened species.


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