European cave shrimp species (Decapoda: Caridea: Atyidae), redefined after a phylogenetic study; redefinition of some taxa, a new genus and four new Troglocaris species Author Sket, Boris Author Zakšek, Valerija text Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 2009 2009-04-30 155 4 786 818 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-lookup/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00473.x journal article 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00473.x 0024-4082 5445539 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) .