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Mysidopsis bigelowi W. Tattersall, 1926 
AphiaID: 157804

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Mysida (Order) > Mysidae (Family) > Leptomysinae (Subfamily) > Mysidopsis (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Americamysis bigelowi (W. Tattersall, 1926)
Rank Species
Parent Mysidopsis G.O. Sars, 1864
Synonymised
taxa
  Mysidopsis bigeloni W. Tattersall, 1926 (spelling mistake)
Sources  original description: Tattersall, W.M. 1926. Crustaceans of the orders Euphausiacea and Mysidacea from the Western Atlantic.-- Proceedings of the United States National Museum 69 (2634): 1-28 (2 plates). [details]

basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C  [details]

additional source: Muller, H.G. (1993) . World catalogue and bibliography of the recent Mysidacea. 238p (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Tattersall, O.S. 1969. A synopsis of the genus Mysidopsis (Mysidacea, Crustacea) with a key for the identification of its known species and descriptions of two new species from South African waters.-- Journal of Zoology 158: 63-79. [details]

additional source: Tattersall, W.M. 1951. A review of the Mysidacea of the United States National Museum.-- Bulletin of the United States National Museum, no. 201: 1-292. [details]

from synonym: Various Authors 2000 . Nematode filing cabinet of the Marine Biology Section Ugent - in combination with the NemasLan Ms-Access database (published on CD-Rom, 2000) [details] [view taxon]

Distribution type locality: Chesapeake Bay [details]
Chesapeake Bay [details]
Delaware [details]
Florida [details]
Georges Bank [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Louisiana [details]
Massachusetts [details]
New England (USA) [details]
North Carolina [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Texas [details]
United States part of the North Atlantic Ocean [details]
Host of  Prodajus bigelowiensis Schultz & Allen, 1982 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications)
To NeMys
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Shrimp Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Depth range: 14.6-42m [details]

Distribution: Virginian, southside of Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras [details]

Habitat: Gray sand; mud and sand; black mud and sand; seems to be pelagic in higher levels during darkness [details]

Remark: polyhaline, hypoplanktonic, abundant in offshore waters; never taken in water with temperature below 11°C [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157804
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-24 07:32:08Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2009-11-24 08:02:51Z  changed  Mees, Jan
2010-02-10 08:18:28Z  changed  Mees, Jan
2012-03-12 13:59:23Z  changed  Mees, Jan
  
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  Citation: Mees, J. (2013). Mysidopsis bigelowi W. Tattersall, 1926. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157804 on 2013-05-21
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