Atyaephyra de Brito Capello, 1867

Christodoulou, Magdalini, Antoniou, Aglaia, Antonios Magoulas, & Athanasios Koukouras,, 2012, Revision of the freshwater genus Atyaephyra (Crustacea, Decapoda, Atyidae) based on morphological and molecular data, ZooKeys 229, pp. 53-110 : 59

Genus Atyaephyra de Brito Capello, 1867

Type species:

Atyaephyra rosiana de Brito Capello, 1867: 6-7, Pl. 1, Figs 1 A–E [type locality: Coimbra, Portugal]; by monotypy.

Diagnosis.

Carapace with supraorbital and antennal tooth. Rostrum long and armed up to the tip. Eyes well developed, pigmented. Exopods present only on the two first pairs of pereiopods, carpus of first and second pair of pereiopods with a distal excavation. Uropod diaeresis with a single spine (rarely two). Appendix masculina of male second pleopod long, sub-cylindrical and armed with numerous spiniform setae. Eggs small to medium, size 0.40-0.75 × 0.25-0.5 mm.