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Mysidacea taxon details

Heteromysis (Gnathomysis) harpax (Hilgendorf, 1878)

161347 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:161347)

accepted
Species
Chiromysis harpax Hilgendorf, 1879 · unaccepted (basionym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Chiromysis harpax Hilgendorf, 1879) Hilgendorf, F. (1879). Die von Hrn. W. Peters in Moçambique gesammelten Crustaceen. <em>Monatsbericht der königlich preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Sitzung der Physikalisch-mathematische Klasse.</em> 1878: 782-851, pls. 1-4 [imprint 1879]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36097499 [details] OpenAccess publication
Depth range intertidal  
Depth range intertidal [details]

Description Commensal of hermit crabs of the genus Dardanus  
Description Commensal of hermit crabs of the genus Dardanus [details]
Mees, J. & K. Meland (Eds) (2012 onwards). World List of Lophogastrida, Stygiomysida and Mysida. Heteromysis (Gnathomysis) harpax (Hilgendorf, 1878). Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/mysidacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=161347 on 2026-09-25
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original description (of Chiromysis harpax Hilgendorf, 1879) Hilgendorf, F. (1879). Die von Hrn. W. Peters in Moçambique gesammelten Crustaceen. <em>Monatsbericht der königlich preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Sitzung der Physikalisch-mathematische Klasse.</em> 1878: 782-851, pls. 1-4 [imprint 1879]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36097499 [details] OpenAccess publication

taxonomy source Nouvel, H. (1964). Heteromysis gerlachei (Bonnier & Pérez) et les espèces actuellement confondues sous le nom d´Heteromysis harpax (Crustacea Mysidacea). <em>Zoologische Mededelingen.</em> 39: 37-44. [details] Available for editors  PDF available

basis of record Price, W. (2001). World list of Mysidacea. [details] 

additional source Anderson, G. (2008). Mysida Classification. September 9, 2008., available online at http://peracarida.usm.edu/MysidaTaxa.pdf [details] 

additional source BACESCU, M. (1975). Contributions to the knowledge of the mysids (Crustacea) from the Tanzanian waters. <em>Univ. Sci. J. (Dar. Univ.), 1 (2): 39-61.</em> (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Coifmann, I. (1937). I misidacei del Mar Rosso. Studio del materiale raccolte dal Prof. L. Sanzo durante la campagne idrografica della R. Nave Ammiraglio Magnaghi (1923-1924). -. <em>Mem. R. Comitato Talassografico Ital., 233: 1-52, 25 pls.</em> [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Hanamura, Y.; Kase, T. (2001). Two new shallow-water mysids of the Genus Heteromysis (Crustacea, Mysidacea) from a Submarine Cave of Christmas Island, Eastern Indian Ocean. <em>Species Diversity.</em> 6: 11-21., available online at https://doi.org/10.12782/specdiv.6.11 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Müller, H. G. (1993). World catalogue and bibliography of the recent Mysidacea. 238p. [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Neyt, K. (2002). Morfologische studie van een nieuwe soort van de ordo Mysidacea uit de Westelijke Indische Oceaan. Unpublished manuscript, Institute voor Dierkunde, Universiteit Gent, Mariene Biologie. [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Ortiz, M., S. Silva & E. Mondlane. (1992). Lista de especies y bibliografia de los crustaceos de la Republica popular de Mozambique. [A new genus and a new species of copepod Harpacticoida associated with the manatee Trichechus manatus in Cuban waters.]. <em>Revista de Investigaciones Marinas.</em> 13(1):9-38. [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Pillai, N.K. (1968). Heteromysis zeylanica Tattersall (Crustacea: Mysidacea), an associate of Madreporarian Corals in South Indian Waters. Journal of the Bobay natural history Society, 65 (1); 47-57 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Tattersall, O.S. 1962. Report on a collection of Mysidacea from South African off-shore and coastal waters (1957-59) and from Zanzibar (1961).-- Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 139: 221-247., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1962.tb01828.x [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Tattersall, O.S. 1967. A survey of the genus Heteromysis (Crustacea: Mysidacea) with descriptions of five new species from tropical coastal waters of the Pacific and Indian Ocean, with a key for the identification of the known species of the genus.-- Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 31: 157-193., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1967.tb00366.x [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Tattersall, W. M. (1922). Indian Mysidacea. <em>Records of the Indian Museum.</em> 24: 445-504. [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source TATTERSALL, W.M. (1927). XI. Report on the Crustacea Mysidacea. In: Zoological results of the Cambridge expedition to the Suez Canal, 1924. - Trans. zool. Soc. London, 22: 185-19 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source VANNINI, M.; RUWA, R.K.; INNOCENTI, G. (1994). Notes on the behaviour of Heteromysis harpax, a commensal mysid living in hermit crab shells Ethology Ecology & Evolution, Special Issue 3: 137-142, available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03949370.1994.10721987 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Wooldridge, T. H.; Mees, J. (2003). Additions to the mysid fauna (Crustacea: Mysidacea) from coastal waters of Mozambique, with descriptions of two new species. <em>Hydrobiologia.</em> 505: 31-39., available online at https://doi.org/10.1023/b:hydr.0000007227.06469.eb [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Wooldridge, T. H.; Mees, J. (2011 onwards). World List of the Mysidacea. , available online at https://www.marinespecies.org/mysidacea [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Depth range intertidal [details]

Habitat Paguridea; commensal; lives in lowest spiral of gastropod shells occupied by hermit crabs belonging to the genus Dardanus; it receives protection from the host and feeds upon its faeces [details]

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Description Commensal of hermit crabs of the genus Dardanus [details]
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