Australatya Chace 1983

Choy, Satish, Page, Timothy J. & Mos, Benjamin, 2019, Taxonomic revision of the Australian species of Australatya Chace 1983 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Atyidae), and the description of a new species, Zootaxa 4711 (2), pp. 366-378 : 367

Australatya Chace 1983

Diagnosis. See Han & Klotz (2015).

Remarks. By including Australatya obscura Han & Klotz 2015 into the genus Australatya, Han & Klotz (2015) initially weakened the separation of Australatya from other Atya -like genera. However, by adding two other characters (the sexual dimorphism of the distal segment of the third maxilliped and the presence of a row of teeth-like spiniform setate on the interno-inferior margin of the merus of the third pereiopod) to the diagnosis, Australatya can now be easily distinguished from all other Atya -like genera (such as Atyoida and Atyoida ) of the Indo-Pacific region.