''Caridina spinata'', or yellow goldflake as it is commonly known in the aquarium hobby, is a freshwater shrimp from

Sulawesi Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...

. It is endemic to

Lake Towuti Lake Towuti () is a lake in East Luwu Regency, South Sulawesi province, Indonesia. Surrounded by mountains, it is the largest lake of the island of Sulawesi and one of the five lakes of the Malili Lake system (the other being Matano, and the s ...

. It lives on rocky substrates.

Threats

It is currently under threat by introduced species like the

flowerhorn cichlid Flowerhorn cichlids are ornamental aquarium fish noted for their vivid colors and the distinctively shaped heads for which they are named. Their head protuberance is formally called a Nuchal lines, nuchal hump. Like blood parrot cichlids, they ar ...

, pollution by the human activities and pollution by a nickel mine. It is also potentially threatened by the increasing harvest for the aquarium trade.

References

Atyidae Freshwater crustaceans of Asia Endemic freshwater shrimp of Sulawesi Crustaceans described in 1937 {{Caridea-stub