Atya

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Atya
Atya gabonensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Caridea
Family: Atyidae
Genus: Atya
Leach, 1815

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

Species

  • 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 margaritacea A. Milne-Edwards, 1874
  • Atya ortmannioides Villalobos, 1956
  • Atya scabra (Leach, 1815)

References

  1. ^ 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. 



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