“…Information about the population structure is important in working with decapods because the data assist in understanding the biology of the species in a given ecosystem. Population aspects in aeglids have been described by several authors in rivers located in the Atlantic Forest in Brazil such as Aegla paulensis Schmitt, 1942(Lopez, 1965, Aegla perobae Hebling and Rodrigues 1977 (Rodrigues andHebling, 1978), Aegla leptodactyla Rossi, 1977 (Noro andBuckup, 2002), Aegla castro Schmitt, 1942 (Swiech-Ayoub andMasunari, 2001;Fransozo et al, 2003), Aegla longirostri Buckup, 1994 (Colpo et al, 2005), Aegla franciscana Rossi, 1977 (Gonçalves et al, 2006), Aegla schmitti Hobbs III, 1979(Teodósio and Masunari, 2009), Aegla parana Schmitt, 1942(Grabowski et al, 2013, Aegla platensis Schmitt, 1942 (Bueno andDalosto et al, 2014), Aegla manuinflata Bond-Buckup and Santos, 2009 (Trevisan and and A. platensis, Aegla grisella Bond-Buckup and Buckup, 1994 and Aegla ludwigi Jara, 2013 (Copatti et al, 2015).…”