Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Mysida

Mysidae Haworth, 1825

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Boreomysinae Holt & Tattersall, 1905
Erythropinae Hansen, 1910
Gastrosaccinae Norman, 1892
Heteromysinae Norman, 1892
Leptomysinae Czerniavsky, 1882
Mysidellinae Czerniavsky, 1882
Mysinae Haworth, 1825
Rhopalophthalminae Hansen, 1910
Siriellinae Czerniavsky, 1882
Troglomysis Stammer, 1933

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Italian: misidi
 Japanese: アミ科

Literature

original description

Haworth, A.H. (1825). A new binary arrangement of the macrurous Crustacea. Philosophical Magazine and Journal. 65(323): 183-184.

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

Dana, J.D. (1850). Synopsis generum crustaceorum ordinis "Schizopoda". American Journal of Science and Arts, ser. 2. 9: 129-133.

additional source

Wooldridge, T. H.; Mees, J. (2011 onwards). World List of the Mysidacea.

additional source

Meland, K., & E. Willassen. 2007. The disunity of “Mysidacea” (Crustacea).-- Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44: 1083-1104.

additional source

Wittmann, K.J.; Ariani, A.P.; Lagardère, J.-P. (2014). Orders Lophogastrida Boas, 1883, Stygiomysida Tchindonova, 1981, and Mysida Boas, 1883 (also known collectively as Mysidacea). In: von Vaupel Klein JC, Charmantier-Daures M, Schram FR, editors. Treatise on Zoology—Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Crustacea. Revised and updated, as well as extended from the Traité de Zoologie,. Vol. 4 Part B (54): 189–396, 404–406.

Genbank

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Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

WoRMS (2025). Mysidae Haworth, 1825. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=119822

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Mysidae Haworth, 1825. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/0092a1d9-6907-4235-ab73-8e0706256f13

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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2016-12-24 by Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall & by Jan Mees & by Dr. Roger Bamber

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