Caridina laoagensis Blanco, 1939 Caridina laoagensis Blanco, 1939 [79]: 390, pl. 2 (Type locality: Laoag River, Laoag, Ilocos Norte Province, Luzon, the Philippines). Caridina laoagensis — Chace, 1997 [20]: 12, fig. 5.—Cai and Anker, 2004 [15]: 237, fig. 3.—Cai and Shokita, 2006 [12]: 248; 2006 [80]: 2141.—Cai et al., 2009 [13]: 67.—Inui et al., 2019 [81]: 3.—Dwiyanto et al., 2021 [82]: 339, fig. 2G, H. Habitat: This species is found in the middle to lower course of rivers. Distribution: On Mindoro: Localities no. 4, 5, 8, 10, 13, 14, 19–27, 29–36, 38, and 40. The Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Japan (Ryukyu). Remarks: This species seems to be the most common in the localities sampled for the present study as in the rest of the Philippines according to Cai et al. (2009) [13]. This species has been assessed as Least Concern for the IUCN Red List (De Grave and Cai, 2013 [83]).

Published as part of de Mazancourt, Valentin, Freitag, Hendrik, von Rintelen, Kristina, Manuel-Santos, Marivene & von Rintelen, Thomas, 2023, Updated Checklist of the Freshwater Shrimps (Decapoda: Caridea: Atyidae) of Mindoro Island, the Philippines, with a Description of a New Species of Caridina, pp. 374-397 in Arthropoda 1 (4) on page 389, DOI: 10.3390/arthropoda1040015, http://zenodo.org/record/18486064