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CaRMS taxon detailsMysis relicta Lovén, 1862
120120 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:120120)
accepted
Species
Lovén, S. L. (1862). Om nagra i Vettern och Venern funna Crustaceer. <em>Öfvers. K. Vetensk. Akad. Förhandl., Stockholm.</em> 1861: 285-314. [details]
Lectotype SMNH SMNH-5955, geounit Sweden
Lectotype SMNH SMNH-5955, geounit Sweden [details]
Depth range shallow water - 200 m
Depth range shallow water - 200 m [details] Distribution North European lakes in the Baltic and White Sea basins; Northern Baltic Sea
Distribution North European lakes in the Baltic and White Sea basins; Northern Baltic Sea [details] Taxonomy Until 2005, the concept of Mysis relicta was broader (circumpolar), encompassing also M. salemaai, M. segerstralei, M....
Taxonomy Until 2005, the concept of Mysis relicta was broader (circumpolar), encompassing also M. salemaai, M. segerstralei, M. diluviana. [details]
Mees, J.; Meland, K.; Väinölä, R. (Eds) (2012 onwards). World List of Lophogastrida, Stygiomysida and Mysida. Mysis relicta Lovén, 1862. Accessed through: Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2025) Canadian Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/CaRMS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=120120 on 2026-09-24
Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2026). Canadian Register of Marine Species. Mysis relicta Lovén, 1862. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=120120 on 2026-09-24
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original description
Lovén, S. L. (1862). Om nagra i Vettern och Venern funna Crustaceer. <em>Öfvers. K. Vetensk. Akad. Förhandl., Stockholm.</em> 1861: 285-314. [details]
taxonomy source Czerniavsky, V. (1882). Monographia Mysidarum inprimis Imperii Rossici. Fasc. 1, 2. <em>Trudy Sankt-Peterburgskago Obshchestvo Estestvoispytatelei (Travaux de la Société des Naturalistes de St.-Pétersbourg).</em> 12: 1-170; 13: 1-85, 4 pls., available online at https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=BXlBAQAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PP6 [details]  taxonomy source Sars, G. O. (1867). Histoire naturelle des Crustacés d´eau douce de Norvège. I. Les Malacostracés. <em>Chr. Johnsen, Christiania.</em> iii 146 p., 10 pl., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8848 [details] taxonomy source Sars, G. O. (1879). Carcinologiske Bidrag til Norges fauna. I. <em>Monographi over de ved Norges Kyster forekommende Mysider. Pt. 3. Christiania, A.W. Brøgger.</em> pp. 1-131, 42 pls. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record Högbom, A. G. (1917). Über die arktischen Elemente in der Aralokaspischenfauna, ein tiergeographisches Problem. <em>Bull. Geol. Inst. Univ. Uppsala.</em> 14: 241-260, 1 pl. [details] additional source Ariani, A.P.; Wittmann, K.J. (2000). Interbreeding versus morphological and ecological differentiation in Mediterranean Diamysis (Crustacea, Mysidacea), with description of four new taxa. <em>Hydrobiologia.</em> 441: 185-236., available online at https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1017598204238 [details] Available for editors  additional source Daneliya, M. E.; Wittmann, K. J. (2021). Conservation of Continental Mysida and Stygiomysida. In: Rogers C.D; Kawai, T. (eds), Recent Advances in Freshwater Crustacean Biodiversity and Conservation (Crustacean Issues Vol. 20). <em>CRC Press.</em> p. 307-346., available online at https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003139560-10 [details] Available for editors additional source Ekman, S. (1915). Die Bodenfauna des Vättern, qualitativ und quantitativ untersucht. [The benthic fauna of Lake Vättern, investigated qualitatively and quantitatively.]. <em>Internationale Revue der Gesamten Hydrobiologie und Hydrographie.</em> 7:146-204, 275-425, figs. 1-6, tabs. 7-14., available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/iroh.19150070203 [details] additional source Fürst, M. 1967. Successful introductions of glacial relicts as argument in a discussion of postglacial history.-- Report (Sotvattenslaboratoriet (Sweden)) = Report - Institute of Freshwater Research (Drottningholm) 47: 113-117. [details] Available for editors additional source Gordan, J. (1957). A bibliography of the order Mysidacea. <em>Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.</em> 112 (4): 281-393. [details] Available for editors additional source Grossnickle, N.E. & T.F. Naesje. (1993). Predation by the glacial relicts Mysis relicta and Heterocope appendiculata in Norwegian lakes. Verhandlungen der Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 25(1):470-473., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03680770.1992.11900168 [details] Available for editors additional source Grossnickle, N.E. 1991. Comparative feeding study of the opossum shrimp, Mysis relicta, in Trout Lake, Wisconsin, U.S.A., Lake Paajarvi, Finland and Lake Jonsvatn, Norway.-- Internationale Vereinigung fuer Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie Verhandlungen 24 (5): 2864-2868., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03680770.1989.11899183 [details] additional source Grossnickle, N.E.; & Beeton, A.M. (1979). Antennal scale length as a measure of relative size in the opossum shrimp, Mysis relicta Loven. <em>Crustaceana.</em> 36 (2): 141-146., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/156854079x00320 [details] Available for editors additional source Holmquist, C. 1955. Die "Mysis relicta" aus dem Mittelmeergebiet (=Diamysis bahirensis [G.O. Sars] 1877 and Paramysis helleri [G.O. Sars] 1877).-- Zoologischer Anzeiger 154: 277-288. [details] Available for editors additional source Horppila, J.; Liljendahl-Nurminen, A.; Malinen, T.; Salonen, M.; Tuomaala, A.; Uusitalo, L.; Vinni, M. (2003). <i>Mysis relicta</i> in a eutrophic lake: Consequences of obligatory habitat shifts. <em>Limnology and Oceanography.</em> 48(3): 1214-1222., available online at https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2003.48.3.1214 [details] additional source Kessler, K. (1868). Materialy dlya poznaniya Onezhskago ozera i Obonezhskago kraia preimushestvenno v zoologicheskom otnoshenii. Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Onega Sees mit Umgegend, insbesondere in zoologischer Beziehung. [Contributions to the knowledge of Lake Onega and its surroundings, particularly in zoological terms.]. <em>Prilozhenie k Trudam pervago svezda Russkikh Estestvoispytatelei, Sanktpeterburg (Supplement to works of the first congress of Russian Naturalists in St. Petersburgh).</em> 1-143, pls. 1-8, 1 map., available online at http://Materialy dlia poznaiia onezhskago ozera i obonezhskago kraia preimushestvenno v zoologicheskom otnoshenii [details] additional source Moen, V. & A. Langeland. (1989). Diurnal, vertical and seasonal horizontal distribution patterns of Mysis relicta in a large Norwegian lake. <em>Journal of Plankton Research.</em> 11 (4): 729-745., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/11.4.729 [details] additional source Müller, H. G. (1993). World catalogue and bibliography of the recent Mysidacea. 238p. [details] Available for editors additional source Norman, A.M. 1892 . On British Mysidae, a family of Crustacea Schizopoda. - Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., ser. 6, 10: 143-166, 242-263, 2pls, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27658748 note: Mysis relicta sensu lato [details] additional source Nylund, A. 1981. The heart ultrastructure of Praunus flexuosus (Müller) and Mysis relicta (Lovén) (Crustacea, Mysidacea).-- Journal of Crustacean Biology: A Quarterly of the Crustacean Society for the Publication of Research on Any Aspect of the Biology of Crustacea 1 (4): 558-566., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1548132 [details] Available for editors additional source Samter, M. (1905). Die geographische Verbreitung von Mysis relicta, Pallasiella quadrispinosa, Pontoporeia affinis in Deutschland als Erklärungsversuch ihrer Herkunft. <em>Abh. K.Preuss. Akad.Wiss.</em> 1905(5):1-34,6 pls. [details] additional source Samter, M.; Weltner, W. (1900). Mysis, Pallasiella und Pontoporeia in einem Binnensee Norddeutschlands. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 23 (628): 638-654. [details] additional source Samter, M.; Weltner, W. (1904). Biologische Eigentümlichkeiten der Mysis relicta, Pallasiella quadrispinosa und Pontoporeia affinis erklärt aus ihrer eiszeitlichen Entstehung. <em>Zool. Anz.</em> 27: 676-694. [details] additional source Sars, G.O. (1863). Beretning om en i Sommeren 1862 foretagen zoologisk Reise i Christianias og Trondhjems Stifter. [Report on a zoological trip undertaken in the summer of 1862 in Christiania and Trondhjem Stifter.]. <em>Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne.</em> 12: 193-252. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source Schlacher, T. A.; Wittmann, K. J.; Ariani, A. P. (1992). Comparative morphology and actuopalaeontology of mysid statoliths (Crustacea, Mysidacea). <em>Zoomorphology.</em> 112: 67-79., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01673808 [details] Available for editors additional source Tattersall, W. M. (1951). A review of the Mysidacea of the United States National Museum. <em>Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin.</em> 201: 1-292., available online at https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=-vhMAAAAYAAJ&rdid=book--vhMAAAAYAAJ [details] Available for editors additional source Thienemann, A. (1928). Die Reliktenkrebse Mysis relicta, Pontoporeia affinis, Pallasea quadrispinosa und die von ihnen bewohnten norddeutschen Seen. <em>Arch. Hydrobiol. Plankton.</em> 19: 521-582. [details] additional source Thienemann, A. (1928). Mysis relicta in sauerstoffarmem Tiefenwasser der Ostsee und das Problem der Atmung im Salzwasser und Süsswasser. <em>Zool. Jb., Zool.</em> 45: 371-384. [details] additional source Väinölä, R. & H. Rockas. (1990). New distributional data on 'glacial relict' crustaceans. <em>Annales Zoologici Fennici.</em> 27(3):215-220. [details] Available for editors additional source Väinölä, R. (1992). The two Baltic species of the Mysis relicta species group. <em>In: Köhn, J., M.B. Jones, & A. Moffat (eds.), Taxonomy, Biology and Ecology of (Baltic) Mysids: Mysidacea: Crustacea): International Expert Conference, September 1991, Hiddensee, Germany. Rostock University.</em> 33-37. [details] Available for editors additional source Väinölä, R. (1994). Molecular systematics and zoogeography of the "Glacial Relict" element Academic dissertation [details] Available for editors 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. <em>Evolution.</em> 49(6): 1215-1223., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.1995.tb04448.x [details] Available for editors additional source Väinölä, R.; Audzijonyte, A.; Riddoch, B. J. (2002). Morphometric discrimination among four species of the Mysis relicta group. <em>Archiv für Hydrobiologie.</em> 155 (3): 493-515., available online at https://doi.org/10.1127/archiv-hydrobiol/155/2002/493 [details] Available for editors additional source Väinölä, R.; Riddoch, B. J.; Ward, R. D.; Jones, R. I. (1994). Genetic zoogeography of the Mysis relicta species group (Crustacea: Mysidacea) in northern Europe and North America. <em>Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> 51: 1490-1505., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/f94-149 [details] Available for editors additional source Vainola, R.; Vainio, J. K. (1998). Distributions, life cycles and hybridization of two Mysis relicta group species (Crustacea: Mysida) in the northern Baltic Sea and lake Baven. <em>Hydrobiologia.</em> 368: 137-148., available online at https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1003237829779 [details] Available for editors additional source Väinölä, R.; Valtonen, E. T.; Gibson, D. I. (1994). Molecular systematics in the acanthocephalan genus Echinorhynchus (sensu lato) in northern Europe. <em>Parasitology.</em> 108: 105-114., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031182000078574 note: parasite: Echinorhynchus bothniensis [details] Available for editors additional source Viherluoto, M.; Kuosa, H.; Flinkman, J.; Viitasalo, M. (2000). Food utilisation of pelagic mysids, Mysis mixta and M. relicta , during their growing season in the northern Baltic Sea. <em>Marine Biology.</em> 136(3): 553-559., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s002270050715 [details] Available for editors additional source Viherluoto, M.; Viitasalo, M. (2001). Effect of light on the feeding rates of pelagic and littoral mysid shrimps: a trade-off between feeding success and predation avoidance. <em>Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.</em> 261(2): 237-244., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-0981(01)00277-5 [details] Available for editors additional source Wittmann K.J. (1984). Ecophysiology of marsupial development and reproduction in Mysidacea (Crustacea). Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review, 22, 393-428., available online at https://doi.org/10.1201/9781482267242-13 [details] Available for editors redescription Audzijonyte, A.; Väinölä, R. (2005). Diversity and distributions of circumpolar fresh- and brackish-water Mysis (Crustacea: Mysida): descriptions of <i>M. relicta</i> Lovén, 1862, <i>M. salemaai</i> n.sp., <i>M. segerstralei</i> n.sp. and <i>M. diluviana</i> n.sp., based on molecular and morphological characters. <em>Hydrobiologia.</em> 544: 88-141., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-004-8337-7 [details] Available for editors  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Lectotype SMNH SMNH-5955, geounit Sweden [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range shallow water - 200 m [details]Distribution North European lakes in the Baltic and White Sea basins; Northern Baltic Sea [details] Taxonomy Until 2005, the concept of Mysis relicta was broader (circumpolar), encompassing also M. salemaai, M. segerstralei, M. diluviana. [details]
To Barcode of Life (23 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (282 publications) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Mysis relicta) To GenBank (35 nucleotides; 31 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (16 records) To ITIS From editor or global species database
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