Atya

{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Atya

| authority = Leach, 1815

}}

Atya is a genus of freshwater shrimp of the family Atyidae, ranging through the Antilles{{cite web |title=Caribbean Freshwater Crustaceans |url=https://nctc.fws.gov/Pubs4/carib_crustaceans.pdf |website=US Fish & Wildlife Service }} and along the Atlantic and Pacific slopes of Central and South America and in western Africa.{{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}} It contains the following species:{{cite WoRMS |author=Charles Fransen |year=2013 |title=Atya Leach, 1816 |id=240671 |access-date=October 21, 2013}}

{{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}}