Atya

Genus of crustaceans

Atya
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Caridea
Family: Atyidae
Genus: Atya
Leach, 1815

Atya is a genus of freshwater shrimp of the family Atyidae, ranging through the Antilles[1] and along the Atlantic and Pacific slopes of Central and South America and in western Africa.[2] It contains the following species:[3]

  • Atya abelei Felgenhauer & Martin, 1983
  • Atya africana Bouvier, 1904
  • Atya brachyrhinus Hobbs & Hart, 1982
  • Atya crassa (Smith, 1871)
  • Atya dressleri Abele, 1975
  • Atya gabonensis Giebel, 1875
  • Atya innocous (Herbst, 1792)
  • Atya intermedia Bouvier, 1904
  • Atya lanipes Holthuis, 1963
  • Atya limnetes Holthuis, 1986
  • Atya margaritacea A. Milne-Edwards, 1864
  • Atya ortmannioides Villalobos F., 1956
  • Atya scabra (Leach, 1816)
  • Atya tenella Smith, 1871

References

  1. ^ "Caribbean Freshwater Crustaceans" (PDF). US Fish & Wildlife Service.
  2. ^ Horton H. Hobbs Jr. & C. W. Hart Jr. (1982). "The shrimp genus Atya (Decapoda: Atyidae)". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 364: 143 pp. hdl:10088/5544.
  3. ^ Charles Fransen (2013). "Atya Leach, 1816". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved October 21, 2013.
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