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

Mysis Latreille, 1802

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Megalophthalmus*	Leach, 1830	synonym
*Mesomysis*	Norman, 1905	synonym
*Michtheimysis*	Norman, 1902	synonym
*Pugetomysis*	Banner, 1948	synonym

Children

Megalophthalmus fabricianus Leach, 1830
Mysis amblyops G.O. Sars, 1907
Mysis caspia G.O. Sars, 1895
Mysis litoralis (Banner, 1948)
Mysis macrolepis G.O. Sars, 1907
Mysis microphthalma G.O. Sars, 1895
Mysis mixta Liljeborg, 1853
Mysis oculata (Fabricius, 1780)
Mysis polaris Holmquist, 1959
Mysis relicta Lovén, 1862

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: opossum shrimps 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.

German: Schwebegarnelen

Literature

original description	Latreille, P. A. (1803). Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des Crustacés et des Insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite aux Œuvres de Leclerc de Buffon, et partie du Cours complet d'Histoire naturelle rédigé par C. S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs Sociétés savantes. Paris, F. Dufart. 6: 1-391, pls. 44-57 [published 18 April 1803 fide Dupuis, 1986].
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.
additional source	Audzijonyte, A.; Pahlberg, J.; Viljanen, M.; Donner, K.; Väinölä, R. (2012). Opsin gene sequence variation across phylogenetic and population histories in Mysis (Crustacea: Mysida) does not match current light environments or visual‐pigment absorbance spectra. Molecular Ecology. 21(9): 2176-2196.
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	Väinölä, R. (1992). Evolutionary genetics of marine Mysis spp. (Crustacea: Mysidacea). Marine Biology. 114: 539-550.
additional source	Audzijonyte, A.; Damgaard, J.; Varvio, S.; Vainio, J. K.; Väinölä, R. (2005). Phylogeny of Mysis (Crustacea, Mysida): history of continental invasions inferred from molecular and morphological data. Cladistics. 21: 576-596.
additional source	Holmquist, C. (1959). Problems on marine-glacial relicts on account of investigations on the genus Mysis. Berlingska Boktryckeriet, Lund, Sweden. 1-270, figs. 1-81, tabs. 1-4, appendix with tabs. 1-3.
additional source	Wooldridge, T. H.; Mees, J. (2011 onwards). World List of the Mysidacea.
additional source	Price, W. (2001). World list of Mysidacea.
additional source	Zimmer, C. (1933). Mysidacea. The fauna of the North Sea and Baltic, 23(10.g3). Akademiische Verlagsgesellschaft: Leipzig, Germany. 29-69 pp.
identification resource	Audzijonyte, A.; Väinölä, R. (2007). Mysis nordenskioldi n. sp. (Crustacea, Mysida), a circumpolar coastal mysid separated from the NE Pacific M. litoralis (Banner, 1948). Polar Biology. 30(9): 1137-1157.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Mees, J.; Meland, K.; Väinölä, R. (Eds) (2012 onwards). World List of Lophogastrida, Stygiomysida and Mysida. Mysis Latreille, 1802. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=119886

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Mysis Latreille, 1802. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/63f26d58-b944-44df-929c-d076eee90809