''Parawaldeckia'' is a genus of

amphipod Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods range in size from and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. There are more than 9,900 amphipod species so far descr ...

crustacean Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group ...

in the family,

Lysianassidae Lysianassidae is a family of marine amphipods, containing the following genera: *'' Acontiostoma'' Stebbing, 1888 *'' Alibrotus'' Milne-Edwards, 1840 *'' Allogaussia'' Schellenberg, 1926 *'' Ambasia'' Boeck, 1871 *'' Ambasiella'' Schellenberg, 1 ...

. and was first described by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing in 1910. The type species is '' Parawaldeckia thomsoni'' (first described in 1906 by Stebbing as ''Nannonyx thomsoni'' ). In Australia species of the genus are found in waters off

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, and off Macquarie Island and the Australian Antarctic territory. They are also found off

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, off southern South America, and in subantarctic waters. They are bottom dwelling at depths of 200 metres. The body is segmented and flattened at the side, and there are seven pairs of walking legs at the front and three pairs of small limbs at the back.

Species

Species accepted by WoRMS (2022) are: *'' Parawaldeckia angusta'' *'' Parawaldeckia dabita'' *'' Parawaldeckia dilkera'' *'' Parawaldeckia hirsuta'' *'' Parawaldeckia karaka'' *'' Parawaldeckia kidderi'' *'' Parawaldeckia lowryi'' *'' Parawaldeckia parata'' *'' Parawaldeckia pulchra'' *'' Parawaldeckia stebbingi'' *'' Parawaldeckia stephenseni'' *'' Parawaldeckia suzae'' *'' Parawaldeckia thomsoni'' *'' Parawaldeckia vesca'' *'' Parawaldeckia yamba''

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q6484645 Gammaridea Fauna of Australia Crustaceans of the Pacific Ocean Crustaceans described in 1910 Taxa named by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing