Atya lanipes

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| image = Atya lanipes, a crustacean (freshwater shrimp).jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=De Grave, S. |author2=Alvarez, F. |author3=Mantelatto, F. |author4=Villalobos, J. |year=2013 |errata=2016 |title=Atya lanipes |volume=2013 |page=e.T197981A107023574 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T197981A2507620.en |access-date=25 July 2024}}

| genus = Atya

| species = lanipes

| authority = Holthuis, 1963{{cite WoRMS |author=de Mazancourt, Valentin |year=2022 |title=Atya lanipes Holthuis, 1963 |id=586050 |accessdate=25 July 2024}}

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Atya lanipes (Spanish common name: gata[http://www.drna.gobierno.pr/biblioteca/publicaciones/hojas-de-nuestro-ambiente/30-Toro%20Negro%20ultimo.pdf Bosques de Puerto Rico: Bosque Estatal de Toro Negro.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150807061645/http://www.drna.gobierno.pr/biblioteca/publicaciones/hojas-de-nuestro-ambiente/30-Toro%20Negro%20ultimo.pdf |date= 7 August 2015 }} Hojas de Nuestro Ambiente. July 2008. [Publication/Issue: P-030] Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources. Retrieved 27 August 2013.) is a freshwater amphidromous{{cite conference |author=D. A. Kikkert |author2=T. A. Crowl |author3=A. P. Covich |name-list-style=amp|url=http://www.freshwater-science.org/other-publications/nabstracts/2006/655.aspx |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130904021327/http://www.freshwater-science.org/other-publications/nabstracts/2006/655.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 September 2013 |title=Physical and chemical factors affecting the upstream migration of amphidromous shrimp in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico |publisher=Society for Freshwater Science |accessdate=3 September 2013 |conference=NABS 54th Annual Meeting |date=June 4–9, 2006 |location=Anchorage, Alaska }} shrimp of the Atyidae family in the Decapoda order.{{ITIS |id=171959 |taxon=Atya lanipes (Holthuis, 1963) |accessdate=3 September 2013}} It is found widely in the Caribbean and is common in the Toro Negro State Forest in central Puerto Rico. It is also known as jonga and in some places people refer to it as "guábara” or “chágara”.{{cite web |title=Caribbean Freshwater Crustaceans |url=https://nctc.fws.gov/Pubs4/carib_crustaceans.pdf |website=US Fish & Wildlife Service }}