Decapoda - Caridea - Atyidae - Atya
Atya gabonensis Giebel, 1875 |
World Distribution
(Mantelatto et al., 2022, Zootaxa) - Western Atlantic—Mexico, Venezuela, Suriname, and Brazil (Maranhão, Piauí, Alagoas, Sergipe, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo). Eastern Atlantic — Senegal, Mali, Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, St. Thomas and Prince, Gabon, and Congo (Giebel 1875; Hobbs 1980; Hobbs & Hart 1982; Ramos-Porto & Coelho 1998; Melo 2003; De Grave & Mantelatto 2013; Mantelatto et al. 2016c). - There were doubts about the wide distribution of this species in the literature, but it has recently been confirmed to be amphi
Atlantic (see Oliveira et al. 2021 for review).
Environnement : Freshwater - Substrat/Association : Hard bottom (rock and rubbles)
Vertical range : Land & Freshwater - Min-Max observed: 0-0 m
French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapà)
Atya gabonensis – Hobbs & Hart, 1982: 54, map fig. 21, Suriname [RNHL, rapids in Suriname River near Brokopondo (Holthuis, pers. comm.), 1 female (27.5), 14 Feb 1964, M. Boeseman]. — Holthuis, 1993: 3, Suriname [Brokopondo Lake]. — Magalhães & Pereira, 2007, tab. 2, Suriname. — Olivera et al., 2021: Map Fig. 1, Tab. 2, Suriname [Molecular analysis confirms the amphi-Atlantic distribution of this species]. — Mantelatto et al. 2022: 31, Suriname [In distribution].
Distribution/Habitat – ATL; Freshwater.
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database