Mysidae

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Mysid seen from below with thefeeding basket open, used for filter feeding.
Mysid seen from below with the
feeding basket open, used for filter feeding.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Mysidacea
Family: Mysidae
Haworth, 1825
Genera

See text.

In biology, the large family Mysidae is one of the principal subgroups within the order Mysidacea or mysid shrimps. Six sub-families are recognised.

The members of Mysidae are sometimes called fairy shrimps. Their characteristic feature is the presence of a statocyst on the endopod of the uropod.

[edit] Sub-family list

  • Boreomysinae Holt & W. M. Tattersall, 1905a
  • Siriellinae Norman, 1892
  • Rhopalophthalminae Hansen, 1910
  • Gastrosaccinae Norman, 1892
  • Mysinae Hansen, 1910
  • Mysidellinae Hansen, 1910

[edit] Genera list

  • Acanthomysis
  • Amblyops
  • Amblyopsoides
  • Anchialina
  • Anisomysis
  • Arachnomysis
  • Atlanterythrops
  • Bathymysis
  • Boreomysis
  • Burrimysis
  • Caesaromysis
  • Calyptomma
  • Chunomysis
  • Dactylamblyops
  • Dactylerythrops
  • Diamysis
  • Erythrops
  • Euchaetomera
  • Euchaetomeropsis
  • Gastrosaccus
  • Haplostylus
  • Hemimysis
  • Heteroerythrops
  • Heteromysis
  • Heteromysoides
  • Hypererythrops
  • Iimysis
  • Kainomatomysis
  • Katamysis
  • Katerythrops
  • Leptomysis
  • Limnomysis
  • Longithorax
  • Mesopodopsis
  • Metamblyops
  • Meterythrops
  • Michthyops
  • Mysideis
  • Mysidella
  • Mysidetes
  • Mysidopsis
  • Mysis
  • Neomysis
  • Paraleptomysis
  • Paramblyops
  • Paramysis
  • Parapseudomma
  • Parerythrops
  • Praunus
  • Pseudomma
  • Pseudomysis
  • Pyroleptomysis
  • Rhopalophthalmus
  • Schistomysis
  • Siriella
  • Stilomysis
  • Tenagomysis
  • Teraterythrops
  • Thalassomysis

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