Paratya
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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, Ryūkyū Islands, Siberia) and South Pacific (Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Lord Howe Island, and Norfolk Island).
[edit] Species
- Australian freshwater shrimp, Paratya australiensis (Kemp, 1917)
- New Zealand freshwater shrimp, Paratya curvirostris (Heller, 1862)
