Species Paratya australiensis Kemp, 1917

Museums

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• Paratya australiensis Kemp, S. 1917. Notes on Crustacea Decapoda in the Indian Museum. X. Hymenosomatidae. Records of the Indian Museum 13(Pt 5 No. 15): 243-379 [303 fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Neotype AM P28693 ♂ (Kemp's types from Clyde, near Sydney, ZSI 7590–2/10, apparently no longer exist), Seven Hills, Sydney, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Williams, W.D. & Smith, M.J. 1979. A taxonomic revision of Australian species of Paratya (Crustacea: Atyidae). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 30: 815-832.
• Paratya atacta Riek, E.F. 1953. The Australian freshwater prawns of the family Atyidae. Records of the Australian Museum 23: 111-121 [114 fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P13279 ♀, Binna Burra, Lamington NP (published type locality: Upper Nerang River, S Queensland).
  Paratype(s) AM P39648 34 specimens.
• Paratya atacta adynata Riek, E.F. 1953. The Australian freshwater prawns of the family Atyidae. Records of the Australian Museum 23: 111-121 [115 fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P13283 ♀, small creek in upper reaches of Middle Harbour, Port Jackson, NSW.
  Paratype(s) AM P39660 4 specimens.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Williams, W.D. & Smith, M.J. 1979. A taxonomic revision of Australian species of Paratya (Crustacea: Atyidae). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 30: 815-832 [815]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern Australia from Atherton Tableland to Tasmania.

Australian Endemic.

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater, littoral.

 

General References

Hughes, J.M., Bunn, S.E., Kingston, D.M. & Hurwood, D.A. 1995. Genetic differentiation and dispersal among populations of Paratya australiensis (Atyidae) in rainforest streams in southeast Queensland. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 14(1): 158-173

Short, J.W. 2000. Freshwater and terrestrial Crustacea. pp. 58–67 in, Wildlife of Tropical North Queensland. Queensland Museum : South Brisbane. 368 pp. [59, colour pl.]

Walsh, C.J. & Mitchell, B.D. 1995. The freshwater shrimp Paratya australiensis (Kemp, 1917) (Decapoda: Atyidae) in estuaries of south-western Victoria. Marine and Freshwater Research 46: 959-965

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-May-2022	DECAPODA Latreille, 1802	04-May-2022	MODIFIED
22-Jul-2013		22-Jul-2013	MODIFIED
10-May-2012		10-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)