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'''''Atya''''' is a genus of freshwater shrimp of the family Atyidae, ranging through the Antilles<ref name="what is a chagara">{{cite web |title=Caribbean Freshwater Crustaceans |url=https://nctc.fws.gov/Pubs4/carib_crustaceans.pdf |website=US Fish & Wildlife Service }}</ref> and along the Atlantic and Pacific slopes of Central and South America and in western Africa.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Horton H. Hobbs Jr. |author-link=Horton H. Hobbs Jr. |author2=C. W. Hart Jr. |name-list-style=amp|year=1982 |title=The shrimp genus ''Atya'' (Decapoda: Atyidae) |journal=Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology |volume=364 |pages=143 pp |hdl=10088/5544}}</ref> It contains the following species:<ref>{{cite WoRMS |author=Charles Fransen |year=2013 |title=''Atya'' Leach, 1816 |id=240671 |access-date=October 21, 2013}}</ref> {{Linked species list |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}}

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Category:Atyidae Category:Decapod genera Category:Freshwater crustaceans Category:Taxa named by William Elford Leach