Tribe Mysini Haworth, 1825

Mysis relicta, a non-Australian species.

© Copyright from Tattersall & Tattersall 1951: fig. 90.

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Introduction

The tribe Mysini is the largest and most widely distributed group of mysidaceans. The tribe comprises 50 genera and about 260 species (Price et al. 2001). Seven genera and 19 species, mainly in the genus Anisomysis, are known from Australian waters. Müller (1993) and Price et al. (2001) catalogued the family.

Diagnosis

Antenna 2 scale present (very variable), outer margin smooth, without setae or outer margin smooth, setose. 3rd thoracopod forming a pereopod. 3rd–8th thoracopods endopod with fused carpus and propodus (tarsus), carpopropodus divided into several subsegments. Marsupium composed of two pairs of oostegites (additional rudimentary oostegites may be found on the 5th and 6th thoracic limbs). (Generated from Meland 2002)

General References

Haworth, A.H. 1825. A new binary arrangement of the brachyurous Crustacea. Philosophical Magazine London 65: 105-106, 183-184

Meland, K. 2002. Mysidacea: Families, subfamilies, tribes and subtribes. http://crustacea.net.

Müller H.-G. 1993. World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Recent Mysidacea. Laboratory for Tropical Ecosystems Research and Information Service, Wetzlar. 491 pp.

Price, W., Anderson, G. & Heard, R. 2001. Mysida homepage. http://tidepool.st.usm.edu/mysids/index.html.

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