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

Megalophthalmus fabricianus Leach, 1830

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: unresolved
Name Status: nom. dub.

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

Literature

original description	Leach, W.E. (1830). On the genus Megalophthalmus, a new and very interesting genus, completely proving the theory of Jules-Caesar Savigny to be correct. Transactions of the Plymouth Institution. Vol. 1: 176-178.
basis of record	van der Land, J.; Brattegard, T. (2001). Mysidacea. In: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: pp. 293-295.
status source	Holmquist, C. (1958). Proposed use of the Plenary Powers to validate neotype for the nominal species Cancer oculatus Fabricius (O.), 1780, to designate the species so named to be the type speciesof the genus Mysis Latreille [1802-1803] and matters incidential thereto. -. Bull. zool. Nom., 16: 51-61.

Genbank

Citation

Mees, J.; Meland, K.; Väinölä, R. (Eds) (2012 onwards). World List of Lophogastrida, Stygiomysida and Mysida. Megalophthalmus fabricianus Leach, 1830. 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:120068