Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Lophogastrida > Family Gnathophausiidae > Genus Gnathophausia

Gnathophausia ingens (Dohrn, 1870)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Gnathophausia*	Willemoes-Suhm, 1875	accepted genus name
*Neognathophausia*	Petryashov, 1992	synonym

Species group names

*Gnathophausia bengalensis*	Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891	synonym
*Gnathophausia calcarata*	G.O. Sars, 1883	synonym
*Gnathophausia doryphora*	Illig, 1906	synonym
*Lophogaster ingens*	Dohrn, 1870	synonym
*Neognathophausia ingens*	(Dohrn, 1870)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: deep water giant red mysid; giant luminescent opossum shrimp

Literature

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	Kathman, R.D., W.C. Austin, J.C. Saltman & J.D. Fulton (1986): Identification manual of the Mysidacea and Euphausiacea of the northeast Pacific. - Can. Spec. Publ. Fish. Aquat.Sci., 93: 1-411
additional source	Tattersall, O.S. 1955. Mysidacea.-- Discovery Reports 28: 1-190, 46 figs.
additional source	Sars, G.O. (1883). Preliminary notices on the Schizopoda of H.M.S. Challenger Expedition Forh. Videnskabsselsk. Kristiania 7: 1-43
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.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Shrimp Collection
Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications)
GBIF

Citation

Meland, K.; Mees, J. (2014). Gnathophausia ingens (Dohrn, 1870). In: Mees, J. & K. Meland (Eds) (2012 onwards) World List of Lophogastrida, Stygiomysida and Mysida. 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:119929