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

Mysida Boas, 1883

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Order group names

Mysidacea Haworth, 1825 synonym

Children

Lepidomysidae
Mysidae Haworth, 1825
Petalophthalmidae Czerniavsky, 1882
Stygiomysidae

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Catalan: mísids
 Chinese: 糠虾目
 Danish: pungrejer
 Dutch: aasgarnalen
 English: mysid shrimps; mysids; opossum shrimps
 Estonian: lõhkjalalised; müsiidilised
 Finnish: halkoisjalkaiset; massiäyriäiset
 French: mysidacés
 German: Glaskrebse; Schwebegarnelen; Schwebgarnelen
 Greek: μυσιδώδη
 Italian: misidacei
 Japanese: アミ目; アミ目 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.
 Korean: 곤쟁이
 Latvian: mizīdas; šķeltkāji; Šķeltkājvēži
 Lithuanian: mizidės
 Norwegian: mysider; pungreker; rekebarn
 Norwegian Bokmål: mysider; pungreker; rekebarn
 Norwegian Nynorsk: pungreker; rekeborn
 Persian: میگوی صاریغ
 Polish: lasonogi; szczeponogi
 Portuguese: misidáceos
 Russian: Мизиды
 Spanish, Castillian: misidáceos
 Swedish: pungräkor

Literature

original description

Boas, J.E.V. 1883. Studien über die Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen der Malakostraken.-- Morphologisches Jahrbuch 8 (4): 485-579 (Plates XXI-XXIV).

basis of record

Brusca, R.C.; Brusca, G.J. (1990). Invertebrates. Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA (USA). ISBN 0-87893-098-1. 922 pp.

additional source

Price, W. (2001). World list of Mysidacea.

additional source

Boas, J.E.V. 1883. Studien über die Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen der Malakostraken.-- Morphologisches Jahrbuch 8 (4): 485-579 (Plates XXI-XXIV).

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.

additional source

Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA). 124 pp.

taxonomy source

Meland, K.; Mees, J.; Porter, M.; Wittmann, K. J. (2015). Taxonomic Review of the Orders Mysida and Stygiomysida (Crustacea, Peracarida). PLoS ONE. 10(4): e0124656.

Genbank

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Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

WoRMS (2025). Mysida. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=149668

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Mysida Boas, 1883. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/a06d2319-afdb-48aa-91fd-6df3a2138073

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, fresh

Importance

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GUID

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Last modified

2014-05-22 by Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall & by Jan Mees & by Dr. Roger Bamber

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