Paratya

Taxobox
name = "Paratya"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
subordo = Pleocyemata
infraordo = Caridea
superfamilia = Atyoidea
familia = Atyidae
genus = "Paratya"
genus_authority = Miers, 1882
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Paratya" is a genus of fresh-water shrimp of the atyid family, found throughout various freshwater habitats in the western Pacific, with a disjunct northern range in the North Pacific (Japan, Korea, Ryukyu Islands, Siberia) and South Pacific (Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Lord Howe Island, and Norfolk Island).

pecies

* Australian freshwater shrimp, "Paratya australiensis" (Kemp, 1917)
* New Zealand freshwater shrimp, "Paratya curvirostris" (Heller, 1862)

External links

* [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2004.01226.x/abs/ Journal of Biogeography]
* [http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/MF9770403.htm CSIRO Marine & Freshwater Research]