Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Mysida > Family Mysidae > Subfamily Mysinae > Tribe Mysini > Genus Mysis

Mysis relicta Lovén, 1862

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mysis*	Latreille, 1802	accepted genus name
*Megalophthalmus*	Leach, 1830	synonym
*Mesomysis*	Norman, 1905	synonym
*Michtheimysis*	Norman, 1902	synonym
*Pugetomysis*	Banner, 1948	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: ferskvandspungreje sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: common Northern European opossum shrimp; opossum shrimp sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Finnish: jäännemassiainen

German: Reliktkrebschen; Spaltfußkrebschen

Latvian: Reliktinė mizidė

Norwegian Nynorsk: istidskreps

Polish: lasonóg jeziorny sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: Pungräka

Literature

original description	Lovén, S. L. (1862). Om nagra i Vettern och Venern funna Crustaceer. Öfvers. K. Vetensk. Akad. Förhandl., Stockholm. 1861: 285-314.
basis of record	Högbom, A. G. (1917). Über die arktischen Elemente in der Aralokaspischenfauna, ein tiergeographisches Problem. Bull. Geol. Inst. Univ. Uppsala. 14: 241-260, 1 pl.
additional source	Väinölä, R. (1992). The two Baltic species of the Mysis relicta species group. In: Köhn, J., M.B. Jones, & A. Moffat (eds.), Taxonomy, Biology and Ecology of (Baltic) Mysids: Mysidacea: Crustacea): International Expert Conference, September 1991, Hiddensee, Germany. Rostock University. 33-37.
additional source	Samter, M.; Weltner, W. (1900). Mysis, Pallasiella und Pontoporeia in einem Binnensee Norddeutschlands. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 23 (628): 638-654.
additional source	Väinölä, R. & H. Rockas. (1990). New distributional data on 'glacial relict' crustaceans. Annales Zoologici Fennici. 27(3):215-220.
additional source	Grossnickle, N.E.; & Beeton, A.M. (1979). Antennal scale length as a measure of relative size in the opossum shrimp, Mysis relicta Loven. Crustaceana. 36 (2): 141-146.
additional source	Holmquist, C. 1955. Die "Mysis relicta" aus dem Mittelmeergebiet (=Diamysis bahirensis [G.O. Sars] 1877 and Paramysis helleri [G.O. Sars] 1877).-- Zoologischer Anzeiger 154: 277-288.
additional source	Kessler, K. (1868). Materialy dlya poznaniya Onezhskago ozera i Obonezhskago kraia preimushestvenno v zoologicheskom otnoshenii. Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Onega Sees mit Umgegend, insbesondere in zoologischer Beziehung. [Contributions to the knowledge of Lake Onega and its surroundings, particularly in zoological terms.]. Prilozhenie k Trudam pervago svezda Russkikh Estestvoispytatelei, Sanktpeterburg (Supplement to works of the first congress of Russian Naturalists in St. Petersburgh). 1-143, pls. 1-8, 1 map.
additional source	Samter, M.; Weltner, W. (1904). Biologische Eigentümlichkeiten der Mysis relicta, Pallasiella quadrispinosa und Pontoporeia affinis erklärt aus ihrer eiszeitlichen Entstehung. Zool. Anz. 27: 676-694.
additional source	Samter, M. (1905). Die geographische Verbreitung von Mysis relicta, Pallasiella quadrispinosa, Pontoporeia affinis in Deutschland als Erklärungsversuch ihrer Herkunft. Abh. K.Preuss. Akad.Wiss. 1905(5):1-34,6 pls.
additional source	Väinölä, R.; Riddoch, B. J.; Ward, R. D.; Jones, R. I. (1994). Genetic zoogeography of the Mysis relicta species group (Crustacea: Mysidacea) in northern Europe and North America. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 51: 1490-1505.
additional source	Künne, C. 1939. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Mysideenfauna der südlichen Nordsee.-- Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 72: 329-358.
additional source	Nylund, A. 1981. The heart ultrastructure of Praunus flexuosus (Müller) and Mysis relicta (Lovén) (Crustacea, Mysidacea).-- Journal of Crustacean Biology: A Quarterly of the Crustacean Society for the Publication of Research on Any Aspect of the Biology of Crustacea 1 (4): 558-566.
additional source	WINKLER G, DODSON JJ, BERTRAND N, THIVIERGE D, VINCENT WF (2003). Trophic coupling across the St. Lawrence River estuarine transition zone Marine Ecology Progress Series 251 : 59-73
additional source	Thienemann, A. (1928). Die Reliktenkrebse Mysis relicta, Pontoporeia affinis, Pallasea quadrispinosa und die von ihnen bewohnten norddeutschen Seen. Arch. Hydrobiol. Plankton. 19: 521-582.
additional source	Schlacher, T. A.; Wittmann, K. J.; Ariani, A. P. (1992). Comparative morphology and actuopalaeontology of mysid statoliths (Crustacea, Mysidacea). Zoomorphology. 112: 67-79.
additional source	Tattersall, O.S. (1954). Shallow-water Mysidacea from the St. Lawrence estuary, Eastern Canada. The Canadian Field-naturalist 68(4): 143-154
additional source	LABAT, R.Contribution à l'étude de l'écologie, l'éthologie et la sexualité chez quelques Mysidacés Faculté des sciences de l'université de toulouse
additional source	KöHN, J.; JONES, M.B. (1991). Taxonomy, Biology and Ecology of (Baltic) Mysidacea International Expert Conference, Hiddensee, Germany
additional source	Mauchline, J.; Murano, M. (1977). World list of the Mysidacea, Crustacea. J. Tokyo Univ. Fish. 64 (1): 39-88.
additional source	Sars, G.O. (1863). Beretning om en i Sommeren 1862 foretagen zoologisk Reise i Christianias og Trondhjems Stifter. [Report on a zoological trip undertaken in the summer of 1862 in Christiania and Trondhjem Stifter.]. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne. 12: 193-252.
additional source	Ekman, S. (1915). Die Bodenfauna des Vättern, qualitativ und quantitativ untersucht. [The soil fauna of Lake Vättern, investigated qualitatively and quantitatively.]. Internationale Revue der Gesamten Hydrobiologie und Hydrographie. 7:146-204, 275-425, figs. 1-6, tabs. 7-14. (Copepoda: 303-307).
additional source	Grossnickle, N.E. 1991. Comparative feeding study of the opossum shrimp, Mysis relicta, in Trout Lake, Wisconsin, U.S.A., Lake Paajarvi, Finland and Lake Jonsvatn, Norway.-- Internationale Vereinigung fuer Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie Verhandlungen 24 (5): 2864-2868.
additional source	Fürst, M. 1967. Successful introductions of glacial relicts as argument in a discussion of postglacial history.-- Report (Sotvattenslaboratoriet (Sweden)) = Report - Institute of Freshwater Research (Drottningholm) 47: 113-117.
additional source	Tattersall, W. M. (1951). A review of the Mysidacea of the United States National Museum. Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin. 201: 1-292.
additional source	Väinölä, R. (1994). Molecular systematics and zoogeography of the "Glacial Relict" element Academic dissertation
additional source	Ekman, S. (1916). 3. Systematische und tiergeographische Bemerkungen über einige glazialmarine Relicte des Kaspischen Meeres. [3. Systematic and zoogeographical remarks on some glacial-marine relics of the Caspian Sea.]. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 47(9):258-269, figs. 1-2. (11-vi-1916).
additional source	Viherluoto, M.; Kuosa, H.; Flinkman, J.; Viitasalo, M. (2000). Food utilisation of pelagic mysids, Mysis mixta and M. relicta , during their growing season in the northern Baltic Sea. Marine Biology. 136(3): 553-559.
additional source	Väinölä, R.; Audzijonyte, A.; Riddoch, B. J. (2002). Morphometric discrimination among four species of the Mysis relicta group. Archiv für Hydrobiologie. 155 (3): 493-515.
additional source	Holmquist, C. (1957). On aberrant specimens of Praunus flexuosus and some other opossum shrimps. Acta borealia. Ser A. 13: 1-29.
additional source	Wittmann K.J. (1984). Ecophysiology of marsupial development and reproduction in Mysidacea (Crustacea). Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review, 22, 393-428.
additional source	Müller, H. G. (1993). World catalogue and bibliography of the recent Mysidacea. 238p.
additional source	Gordan, J. (1957). A bibliography of the order Mysidacea. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 112 (4): 281-393.
additional source	Thienemann, A. (1928). Mysis relicta in sauerstoffarmem Tiefenwasser der Ostsee und das Problem der Atmung im Salzwasser und Süsswasser. Zool. Jb., Zool. 45: 371-384.
additional source	Grossnickle, N.E. & T.F. Naesje. (1993). Predation by the glacial relicts Mysis relicta and Heterocope appendiculata in Norwegian lakes. Verhandlungen der Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 25(1):470-473.
additional source	Vainola, R.; Vainio, J. K. (1998). Distributions, life cycles and hybridization of two Mysis relicta group species (Crustacea: Mysida) in the northern Baltic Sea and lake Baven. Hydrobiologia. 368: 137-148.
additional source	Elofsson, R. (1966). The nauplius eye and frontal organs of the non-Malacostraca (Crustacea). Sarsia. 25(1):1-128, figs. 1-71. (25-viii-1966).
additional source	Norman, A.M. 1892 . On British Mysidae, a family of Crustacea Schizopoda. - Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., ser. 6, 10: 143-166, 242-263, 2pls
additional source	Väinölä, R. (1995). Origin and recent endemic divergence of a Caspian Mysis species flock with affinities to the "glacial relict" crustaceans in boreal lakes. Evolution. 49(6): 1215-1223.
additional source	Viherluoto, M.; Viitasalo, M. (2001). Effect of light on the feeding rates of pelagic and littoral mysid shrimps: a trade-off between feeding success and predation avoidance. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 261(2): 237-244.
additional source	Daneliya, M. E.; Wittmann, K. J. (2021). Conservation of Continental Mysida and Stygiomysida. In: Rogers C.D; Kawai, T. (eds), Recent Advances in Freshwater Crustacean Biodiversity and Conservation (Crustacean Issues Vol. 20). CRC Press. p. 307-346.
additional source	Väinölä, R.; Valtonen, E. T.; Gibson, D. I. (1994). Molecular systematics in the acanthocephalan genus Echinorhynchus (sensu lato) in northern Europe. Parasitology. 108: 105-114.
additional source	Ariani, A.P.; Wittmann, K.J. (2000). Interbreeding versus morphological and ecological differentiation in Mediterranean Diamysis (Crustacea, Mysidacea), with description of four new taxa. Hydrobiologia. 441: 185-236.
redescription	Audzijonyte, A.; Väinölä, R. (2005). Diversity and distributions of circumpolar fresh- and brackish-water Mysis (Crustacea: Mysida): descriptions of M. relicta Lovén, 1862, M. salemaai n.sp., M. segerstralei n.sp. and M. diluviana n.sp., based on molecular and morphological characters. Hydrobiologia. 544: 88-141.
taxonomy source	Sars, G. O. (1867). Histoire naturelle des Crustacés d´eau douce de Norvège. I. Les Malacostracés. Chr. Johnsen, Christiania. iii 146 p., 10 pl.
taxonomy source	Norman, A.M. 1892 . On British Mysidae, a family of Crustacea Schizopoda. - Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., ser. 6, 10: 143-166, 242-263, 2pls
taxonomy source	Harms, J. (1993). Check list of species (algae, invertebrates and vertebrates) found in the vicinity of the island of Helgoland (North Sea, German Bight): a review of recent records. Helgoländer Meeresunters. 47: 1-34. [p. 25, tab. 3: Gastrosaccus spinifer, Mysis relicta, Praunus inermis, Schistomysis kervillei, Schistomysis spiritus.
taxonomy source	Laubitz; D. R. (1986). Synopsis speciorum. Crustacea: Euphausiacea et Mysidacea. Bibliogr. Invertebr. Aquat. Can. 6: 1-28, 51-67.
taxonomy source	Czerniavsky, V. (1882). Monographia Mysidarum inprimis Imperii Rossici. Fasc. 1, 2. Trudy Sankt-Peterburgskago Obshchestvo Estestvoispytatelei (Travaux de la Société des Naturalistes de St.-Pétersbourg). 12: 1-170; 13: 1-85, 4 pls.
taxonomy source	Jarzynsky. (1870). Praem. cat. Crustacea decap. maris albi et litt. Murman Trudy Soc. Nat. Petropol. 1, fasc. 2, p. 317.
taxonomy source	Sars, G. O. (1879). Carcinologiske Bidrag til Norges fauna. I. Monographi over de ved Norges Kyster forekommende Mysider. Pt. 3. Christiania, A.W. Brøgger. pp. 1-131, 42 pls.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Mees, J.; Meland, K.; Väinölä, R. (Eds) (2012 onwards). World List of Lophogastrida, Stygiomysida and Mysida. Mysis relicta Lovén, 1862. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:120120

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Mysis relicta Lovén, 1862. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/a5ac5b56-1e7f-4eb1-8724-b4cc2af58a88