# Atya

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{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}}

{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Atya
| authority = [Leach](/source/William_Elford_Leach), 1815
}}

'''''Atya''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [freshwater](/source/fresh_water) [shrimp](/source/Caridea) of the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Atyidae](/source/Atyidae), ranging through the [Antilles](/source/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](/source/South_America) and in western [Africa](/source/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](/source/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}}

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

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