WoRMS name details
original description
Fabricius, O. (1780). Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens animalia groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificium, triviale, vernaculumque, synonyma auctorum plurimum, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum capturamque singuli, pro ut detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes. <em>Hafniae [= Copenhagen] & Lipsiae [= Leipzig], Ioannis Gottlob Rothe.</em> xvi + 452 pp., 1 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13442285 [details]
basis of record
Müller, H. G. (1993). World catalogue and bibliography of the recent Mysidacea. 238p. note: Listed as synonym of Mysis mixta (with no reference or authorship) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Gordan, J. (1957). A bibliography of the order Mysidacea. <em>Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.</em> 112 (4): 281-393. note: In the bibliography, listed as synonym of Mysis mixta, referring to Gerstaecker & Ortmann (1901), which did not suggest synonymy. however. [details] Available for editors [request]
new combination reference
Gerstaecker, A. & A.E. Ortmann. (1901). Unterordung Schizopoda. In: Die Klassen und Ordnungen der Arthropoden wissenschaftlich vorgestellt in Wort und Bild. Crrustacea. Malacostraca. vol. 5, Abt. 1, pt. 2, pp. 602-686. Leipzig, C.F. Winter'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung,., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1918865 page(s): 672; note: "Mysis (?) pedata Fab." [details]
status source
Holmquist, C. (1958). Proposed use of the Plenary Powers to validate neotype for the nominal species Cancer oculatus Fabricius (O.), 1780, to designate the species so named to be the type speciesof the genus Mysis Latreille [1802-1803] and matters incidential thereto. -. <em>Bull. zool. Nom., 16: 51-61.</em> [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Described as Cancer pedatus Fabricius, 1780, in parallel with the description of Cancer oculatus [=Mysis oculata (Fabricius, 1780)], as a mass species in Greenland waters and an important prey of cetaceans. The identity of the species remains unclear. [details]
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