Atya
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Scientific classification 
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| 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
[edit]- ^ "Caribbean Freshwater Crustaceans" (PDF). US Fish & Wildlife Service.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Charles Fransen (2013). "Atya Leach, 1816". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved October 21, 2013.
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