Abstract
We studied the effects of temperature on the reproduction of two atyid shrimp species of the genus Caridina, namely C. multidentata and C. typus, by culturing them at 20, 23 and 26 °C. Females of both species oviposited at all temperatures. Temperature did not affect the hatching rates in C. typus, but the hatching rates in C. multidentata were low at 26 °C. The number of newly hatched larvae from a single female was affected by temperature for both species and decreased with increasing temperatures. The reduction rate in the number of newly hatched larvae from 20 °C to 23 °C and 26 °C was 67 % and 88 % for C. multidentata and 27 % and 29 % for C. typus, respectively. Thus, high-temperature regimes negatively affected the reproductive output of these atyid shrimps.