Zoological Studies 46(4): 454-472 (2007) The alpheid shrimp genus Athanas Leach,

species in the eastern Atlantic and Indo-West Pacific. Most species are small (< 10 mm in total length) and inhabit coral reefs and rocky or muddy-sandy bottoms; some species live in sym-biosis (commensalism) with other animals, such as thalassinideans, stomatopods, and echino-derms (Suzuki 1970, Banner and Banner 1973, Gherardi 1991, Froglia and Atkinson 1998, Anke