Paratya

{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Paratya curvirostris in Henderson (2).jpg

| image_caption = Paratya curvirostris

| taxon = Paratya

| authority = Miers, 1882

}}

Paratya is a genus of freshwater shrimp of the family Atyidae, found in various islands in the Pacific Ocean.{{cite journal |author1=Timothy J. Page |author2=Andrew M. Baker |author3=Benjamin D. Cook |author4=Jane M. Hughes |year=2005 |title=Historical transoceanic dispersal of a freshwater shrimp: the colonization of the South Pacific by the genus Paratya (Atyidae) |journal=Journal of Biogeography |volume=32 |issue=4 |pages=581–593 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-2699.2004.01226.x |bibcode=2005JBiog..32..581P |url=http://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/20894/20894.pdf }} The split between the North Pacific clade (Japan) and the South Pacific clade (New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia, Lord Howe Island) has been estimated to have occurred {{Ma|19|12.5}}.