Attheyella yemanjae

{{Short description|Species of crustacean}}

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| status = LR/cd

| status_system = IUCN2.3

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Reid, J.W. |date=1996 |title=Attheyella yemanjae |volume=1996 |page=e.T2380A9436147 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T2380A9436147.en |access-date=15 November 2021}}

| taxon = Attheyella yemanjae

| authority = Reid, 1993

}}

Attheyella yemanjae is a species of copepod in the family Canthocamptidae. It is only known from the type locality, which is the {{lang|pt|Campo Úmido da Onça}} in Brazil's {{lang|pt|Distrito Federal}} ({{coord|15|56|40|S|47|54|20|W}}).{{cite journal|author=J. L. W. Reid |year=1993 |title=Two new species of copepods (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Canthocamptidae) of particular biogeographical interest from central Brazil |journal=Nauplius |volume=1 |pages=13–38 |url=http://www.crustacea.org.br/artigos/443__Reid_1993_NAUPLIUS_Vol_1_13-38.pdf |location=Rio Grande |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326184322/http://www.crustacea.org.br/artigos/443__Reid_1993_NAUPLIUS_Vol_1_13-38.pdf |archivedate=2012-03-26 }} It is listed as conservation dependent on the IUCN Red List. The specific epithet yemanjae commemorates Yemanjá, the "beneficent and terrible goddess of the sea and the patroness of those who work on the waters" in Candombé mythology.