
%0 Journal Article
%A Williams, WD 
%T Some aspects of the ecology of <I>Paratya australiensis</I> (Crustacea : Decapoda : Atyidae)
%J Marine and Freshwater Research
%D 1977/08/01
%V 28
%N 4
%P 403-415
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/MF9770403
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/MF9770403 
%X Three Australian species of Paratya have been described. However, only one, P. australiensis, can be accepted. It occurs in Australia in a broad south-eastern arc, and in a wide variety of permanent inland waters (coastal streams, rivers, lakes, farm dams and ponds). In these it favours vegetated areas. Young hatch as free-floating larvae and hatching occurs mainly in early summer in southern Victoria. Females breed in their second summer. In south-eastern Australia, at least, this breeding season appears adapted to the hydrological regime of running waters. 
