Caridina susuroflabra Richard & Clark, 2009 is a junior synonym of the widespread Caridina africana Kingsley, 1882 (Decapoda, Atyidae)

The freshwater caridean genus, Caridina H. Milne Edwards, 1837, is one of the most taxonomically challenging genera within Caridea. Not only does the genus contain around 300 species, a daunting number and thus taxonomically challenging by itself. Historically however, numerous poor descriptions by modern standards abound, often erecting species on what are now known to be variable characters, such as rostral length (e.g., de Mazancourt et al., 2017a). Further, many species, both historically as well as recently described, remain only known from their (often small) type series, confounding a lack of knowledge about intraspecific variation. In recent years,