Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Mysida > Family Mysidae > Subfamily Mysinae > Genus Praunus

Praunus flexuosus (Müller, 1776)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Praunus*	Leach, 1814	accepted genus name
*Macromysis*	White, 1847	synonym

Species group names

*Macromysis brevispinosus*		synonym
*Mysis flexuosa*	Müller, 1776	synonym
*Mysis spinulosus*	Leach, 1813	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Bokmål (Norwegian): tangmysid sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: aasgarnaal; bochtige aasgarnaal; geknikte aasgarnaal sources: Leewis, R. (2002). Flora en fauna van de zee [Marine flora and fauna]. Veldgids, 16. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-153-X. 320 pp.;Annys, A. (1984). Verslag excursie naar Sas van Goes (Ned.) op 9 oktober 1983 [Report on the excursion to Sas van Goes (Netherlands), 9 October 1983]. De Strandvlo 4(1): 18-19;Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: chameleon shrimp sources: Leewis, R. (2002). Flora en fauna van de zee [Marine flora and fauna]. Veldgids, 16. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-153-X. 320 pp.

English-United States: Chameleon Shrimp sources: Charles Hussey

German: gebogene Schwebegarnele sources: Unterwasser-Welt Ostsee

Norwegian: tangmysid sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: tangmysid sources: Crustaceology. In: Brewster's Edinburgh encyclopae

Norwegian Nynorsk: tangmysid sources: Crustaceology. In: Brewster's Edinburgh encyclopae

Nynorsk (Norwegian): tangmysid sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: lasonóg brzegowy

Literature

original description	Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologica Danicae Prodromus seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum characters, nomine, et synonyma imprimis popularium. Havniae. XXXII, 274 pp.
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	Tattersall, W.M. 1909. The Schizopoda collected by the Maia and Puritan in the Mediterranean.-- Mittheilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel 19 (2): 117-143 (1 plate).
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	ITIS database
additional source	Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013].
additional source	Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324.
additional source	Price, W. (2001). World list of Mysidacea.
additional source	Tattersall, W.M. 1951. A review of the Mysidacea of the United States National Museum.-- Bulletin of the United States National Museum, no. 201: 1-292.
additional source	World List of the Mysidacea - Created by Wooldridge, T. & Mees, J.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys
WoRMS

External Links

Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Shrimp Collection
Biodiversity Heritage Library (38 publications)
GenBank (8 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Mees, J. (2014). Praunus flexuosus. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:120177