Mysidae
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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
This may not be a complete list.
