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

References

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  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.