Atyaephyra F. de Brito Capello 1866

GENUS ATYAEPHYRA F. DE BRITO CAPELLO, 1866 Diagnosis: A (supposedly) paratyine genus with supra- and suborbital spines, without a pterygostomial spine; only pereopods I–II with exopodites; mature male pereopods III–IV distally not widened, dactylus not pectinate; pereopod-V dactylus pectinate; male pleopod I endopodite with an indistinct lobe, extended apically into a long and twisted AI; male pleopod II AM sausage shaped, with long spines; telson with more than two pairs of dorsomarginal spines. The known species is epigean with normal eyes. Distribution: With A. desmarestii as its only recognized species, it is widely distributed in the greater Mediterranean area, including south-western Asia, and western to central Europe, as well as northwestern Africa (Morocco); the species as conceived now can not be characterized as endemic, and will not be discussed further here. The topotypical population was redescribed recently by Anastasiadou et al. (2006).
Published as part of Sket, Boris & Zakšek, Valerija, 2009, European cave shrimp species (Decapoda: Caridea: Atyidae), redefined after a phylogenetic study; redefinition of some taxa, a new genus and four new Troglocaris species, pp. 786-818 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155 (4) on page 791, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00473.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5445539
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