Paratylus minikoi Walker, 1905, p. 925, fig. 141, 1–5.

Locality: Puysegur Point. One specimen, collected by T. B. Smith.

This species was originally described by Walker in his report on the Amphipoda of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagos. A small number of specimens collected at Carnac Island, west Australia, by Dr. Mjoberg, whose collection I have recently been examining, prove to belong to Walker's species, and the comparison of them with the single specimen from Puysegur Point which I had had for some time proved that the New Zealand specimen was also the same. This is the first record of the genus for New Zealand. The species N. minikoi can be distinguished from N. homochir (Haswell), which occurs in Australian and South African seas, by the absence of dorsal teeth on the peraeon and anterior segments of the pleon, and by the presence of a carina on the fourth and a smaller one on the coalesced fifth and sixth segments. The branchiae, described by Walker as “obliquely pinnate,” are also characteristic, though the branchiae on the different segments vary somewhat in structure.

The species is now known from the Laccadive Archipelago, west Australia, and south-west New Zealand.