Atyidae

{{Short description|Family of crustaceans}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Berriasian|present}}

| image = Caridina japonica.jpg

| image_caption = Caridina multidentata

| parent_authority = De Haan, 1849

| taxon = Atyidae

| authority = De Haan, 1849

}}

Atyidae is a family of shrimp, present in all tropical and most temperate waters of the world. Adults of this family are almost always confined to fresh water. This is the only family in the superfamily Atyoidea.

Genera and species

The following classification follows De Grave et al. (2010),{{cite journal |journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |year=2009 |volume=Suppl. 21 |pages=1–109 |title=A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans |author1=Sammy De Grave |author2=N. Dean Pentcheff |author3=Shane T. Ahyong |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |display-authors=etal |access-date=2010-02-10 |archive-date=2011-06-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606064728/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |url-status=dead }} with subsequent additions.{{cite journal |author=Yixiong Cai |year=2010 |title=Atydina, a new genus for Caridina atyoides Nobili, 1900, from Indonesia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Atyidae) |journal=Zootaxa |volume=2372 |pages=75–79 |url=http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02372p079f.pdf |format=PDF excerpt}}{{cite journal |author=Jasmine Richard, Sammy De Grave & Paul F. Clark |year=2012 |title=A new atyid genus and species from Madagascar (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) |journal=Zootaxa |volume=3162 |pages=31–38 |url=http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2012/f/z03162p038f.pdf |format=PDF excerpt|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3162.1.2 }}

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