Atyaephyra, F. DE BRITO CAPELLO, 1866

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, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155 (4), pp. 786-818 : 791

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).