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{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}}
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{{Use Australian English|date=April 2011}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Paracalliope
| authority = [[Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing|Stebbing]], 1899
| type_species = ''[[Paracalliope fluviatilis|Calliope fluviatilis]]''
| type_species_authority = [[George M. Thomson|Thomson]], 1879&nbsp;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/Paracalliope |title=Genus ''Paracalliope'' Stebbing, 1899 |work=[[Australian Faunal Directory]] |publisher=[[Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts]] |date=9 March 2010 |access-date=13 April 2010}}</ref>
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'''''Paracalliope''''' is a genus of [[Amphipoda|amphipod]] [[crustacean]]s that live in [[Australasia]]. They include the most common freshwater amphipods in [[New Zealand]], where they are particularly frequent in slow-flowing reaches of rivers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.waitakere.govt.nz/abtcit/ei/ecowtr/macroinv/bugsadultinfo.asp#paracalliope |title=''Paracalliope'' |work=More information on macroinvertebrates |publisher=[[Waitakere City Council]] |access-date=13 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121027033101/http://www.waitakere.govt.nz/abtcit/ei/ecowtr/macroinv/bugsadultinfo.asp#paracalliope |archive-date=27 October 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> They shelter among weed beds and are important prey items for fish such as the [[New Zealand smelt]], ''Retropinna retropinna'', which are in turn important prey for the freshwater [[eel]]s ''[[Short-finned eel|Anguilla australis]]'' and ''[[New Zealand longfin eel|Anguilla dieffenbachii]]''. ''Paracalliope'' acts as an [[intermediate host]] for the [[nematode]] ''[[Hedruris spinigera]]'', which can thus reach their primary host, the eel.<ref>{{cite journal |author=D. J. Jellyman |year=1989 |title=Occurrence of the nematode ''Hedruris spinigera'' in the stomachs of freshwater eels |journal=[[New Zealand Journal of Zoology]] |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=185–189 |doi=10.1080/03014223.1989.10422567}}</ref>

==Species==
Ten species have been described:<ref>{{cite journal |title=New amphipod species described in the period 1974–2004, ordered by family |author=Wim Vader |year=2005 |journal=Amphipod Newsletter |volume=30 |pages=1–56 |url=http://uit.no/getfile.php?PageId=324&FileId=1086 |access-date=13 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608071630/http://uit.no/getfile.php?PageId=324&FileId=1086 |archive-date=8 June 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=The freshwater Amphipoda (Crustacea) of New Zealand: a review |author=Graham D. Fenwick |year=2001 |journal=[[Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand]] |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=341–363 |url=http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/Site/publish/Journals/jrsnz/2001/25.aspx |doi=10.1080/03014223.2001.9517658|bibcode=2001JRSNZ..31..341F |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
*''[[Paracalliope australis]]'' <small>(Haswell, 1880)</small> – {{AUS}}
*''[[Paracalliope bacescui]]'' <small>Ortiz & Lalana, 1997</small> – {{IDN}}
*''[[Paracalliope dichotomus]]'' <small>Morino, 1991</small> – {{JPN}}
*''[[Paracalliope fluviatilis]]'' <small>(Thomson, 1879)</small> – {{NZL}}
*''[[Paracalliope karitane]]'' <small>Barnard, 1972</small> – {{NZL}}
*''[[Paracalliope larai]]'' <small>Knott, 1975</small> – {{AUS}}
*''[[Paracalliope lowryi]]'' <small>Barnard & Drummond, 1992</small> – {{AUS}}
*''[[Paracalliope mapela]]'' <small>Myers, 1985</small> – {{FJI}}
*''[[Paracalliope novaecaledoniae]]'' <small>Ruffo & Paiotta, 1972</small> – {{NCL}}
*''[[Paracalliope vicinus]]'' <small>Barnard & Drummond, 1992</small> – {{AUS}}

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[[Category:Amphilochidea]]
[[Category:Amphipod genera]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing]]