WoRMS 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.; Meland, K. (Eds) (2012 onwards). World List of Lophogastrida, Stygiomysida and Mysida. Heteromysis (Gnathomysis) harpax (Hilgendorf, 1878). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=161347 on 2024-04-23
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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). - Zool. Meded., 39: 37-4 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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

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

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 [request] 

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 [request] 

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. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Wooldridge, T. H.; Mees, J. (2011 onwards). World List of the Mysidacea.  [details]   

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

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 [request] 

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 [request] 

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. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source ORTIZ, M. & A. WASIKETE (1992). Lista de Especies y Bibliografia de los Crustaceos de la Republica Popular de Mozambique. - Revta. Invest. Mar., 13 (1): 9-38. [Gastrosaccus dunckeri, Heteromysisharpax, Mesopodopsis africana [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Tattersall, W. M. (1922). Indian Mysidacea. <em>Rec. Indian Mus.</em> 24 (4): 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 [request] 

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 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
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]

From other sources
Description Commensal of hermit crabs of the genus Dardanus [details]