RAMS taxon details
Mysis Latreille, 1802
119886 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:119886)
accepted
Genus
- Species Mysis australe O.S. Tattersall, 1955 accepted as Antarctomysis maxima (Holt & W.M. Tattersall, 1906) (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh
Latreille, P. A. (1803). Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des Crustacés et des Insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite aux Œuvres de Leclerc de Buffon, et partie du Cours complet d'Histoire naturelle rédigé par C. S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs Sociétés savantes. <em>Paris, F. Dufart.</em> 6: 1-391, pls. 44-57 [published 18 April 1803 fide Dupuis, 1986]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24882091 [details]
Mees, J.; Meland, K.; Väinölä, R. (Eds) (2012 onwards). World List of Lophogastrida, Stygiomysida and Mysida. Mysis Latreille, 1802. Accessed through: De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2025) Register of Antarctic Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/rams/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=119886 on 2026-09-03
De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2026). Register of Antarctic Marine Species. Mysis Latreille, 1802. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/rams/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=119886 on 2026-09-03
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Latreille, P. A. (1803). Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des Crustacés et des Insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite aux Œuvres de Leclerc de Buffon, et partie du Cours complet d'Histoire naturelle rédigé par C. S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs Sociétés savantes. <em>Paris, F. Dufart.</em> 6: 1-391, pls. 44-57 [published 18 April 1803 fide Dupuis, 1986]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24882091 [details]
basis of record van der Land, J.; Brattegard, T. (2001). Mysidacea. <em>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.</em> 50: pp. 293-295. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Audzijonyte, A.; Damgaard, J.; Varvio, S.; Vainio, J. K.; Väinölä, R. (2005). Phylogeny of Mysis (Crustacea, Mysida): history of continental invasions inferred from molecular and morphological data. <em>Cladistics.</em> 21: 576-596., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2005.00081.x [details] Available for editors
additional source Audzijonyte, A.; Pahlberg, J.; Viljanen, M.; Donner, K.; Väinölä, R. (2012). Opsin gene sequence variation across phylogenetic and population histories in <i>Mysis</i> (Crustacea: Mysida) does not match current light environments or visual‐pigment absorbance spectra. <em>Molecular Ecology.</em> 21(9): 2176-2196., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294x.2012.05516.x [details] Available for editors
additional source Holmquist, C. (1959). Problems on marine-glacial relicts on account of investigations on the genus Mysis. <em>Berlingska Boktryckeriet, Lund, Sweden.</em> 1-270, figs. 1-81, tabs. 1-4, appendix with tabs. 1-3. [details]
additional source Jarzynsky, T. 1870. Praemissas Catalogus Crustaceorum decapodorum, inventorum, in mari albo, et in mari glacialis ad litus Murmanicum auno 1869 et 1870.-- Trudy Soc. Nat. Petropol., 1 (2): 1-317. [details]
additional source Price, W. (2001). World list of Mysidacea. [details]
additional source Väinölä, R. (1992). Evolutionary genetics of marine Mysis spp. (Crustacea: Mysidacea). <em>Marine Biology.</em> 114: 539-550., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00357251 [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 Zimmer, C. (1933). Mysidacea. <i>The fauna of the North Sea and Baltic</i>, 23(10.g3). Akademiische Verlagsgesellschaft: Leipzig, Germany. 29-69 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
identification resource Audzijonyte, A.; Väinölä, R. (2007). Mysis nordenskioldi n. sp. (Crustacea, Mysida), a circumpolar coastal mysid separated from the NE Pacific M. litoralis (Banner, 1948). <em>Polar Biology.</em> 30(9): 1137-1157., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-007-0271-5
note: Key to marine Mysis spp. [details] Available for editors
basis of record van der Land, J.; Brattegard, T. (2001). Mysidacea. <em>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.</em> 50: pp. 293-295. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Audzijonyte, A.; Damgaard, J.; Varvio, S.; Vainio, J. K.; Väinölä, R. (2005). Phylogeny of Mysis (Crustacea, Mysida): history of continental invasions inferred from molecular and morphological data. <em>Cladistics.</em> 21: 576-596., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2005.00081.x [details] Available for editors
additional source Audzijonyte, A.; Pahlberg, J.; Viljanen, M.; Donner, K.; Väinölä, R. (2012). Opsin gene sequence variation across phylogenetic and population histories in <i>Mysis</i> (Crustacea: Mysida) does not match current light environments or visual‐pigment absorbance spectra. <em>Molecular Ecology.</em> 21(9): 2176-2196., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294x.2012.05516.x [details] Available for editors
additional source Holmquist, C. (1959). Problems on marine-glacial relicts on account of investigations on the genus Mysis. <em>Berlingska Boktryckeriet, Lund, Sweden.</em> 1-270, figs. 1-81, tabs. 1-4, appendix with tabs. 1-3. [details]
additional source Jarzynsky, T. 1870. Praemissas Catalogus Crustaceorum decapodorum, inventorum, in mari albo, et in mari glacialis ad litus Murmanicum auno 1869 et 1870.-- Trudy Soc. Nat. Petropol., 1 (2): 1-317. [details]
additional source Price, W. (2001). World list of Mysidacea. [details]
additional source Väinölä, R. (1992). Evolutionary genetics of marine Mysis spp. (Crustacea: Mysidacea). <em>Marine Biology.</em> 114: 539-550., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00357251 [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 Zimmer, C. (1933). Mysidacea. <i>The fauna of the North Sea and Baltic</i>, 23(10.g3). Akademiische Verlagsgesellschaft: Leipzig, Germany. 29-69 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
identification resource Audzijonyte, A.; Väinölä, R. (2007). Mysis nordenskioldi n. sp. (Crustacea, Mysida), a circumpolar coastal mysid separated from the NE Pacific M. litoralis (Banner, 1948). <em>Polar Biology.</em> 30(9): 1137-1157., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-007-0271-5
note: Key to marine Mysis spp. [details] Available for editors
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