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Afromysis Zimmer, 1916 
AphiaID: 161526

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Mysida (Order) > Mysidae (Family) > Leptomysinae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Leptomysinae Hansen, 1910
Sources  original description: Zimmer, C. 1916. Crustacea IV. Cumacea und Schizopoda. Pages 55-66, In: Michaelsen, W. (ed.), Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Meeresfauna Westafrikas. Friedrichsen und Co., Hamburg (1 plate) (in German). [details] [full text]

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

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

additional source: Tattersall, O.S. 1955. Mysidacea.-- Discovery Reports 28: 1-190, 46 figs. [details]

additional source: World List of the Mysidacea - Created by Wooldridge, T. & Mees, J. [details]

All child
taxa
[hide all]		 Species Afromysis bainbridgei O. Tattersall, 1957
Species Afromysis dentisinus Pillai, 1957
Species Afromysis guinensis Bacescu, 1968
Species Afromysis hansoni Zimmer, 1916
Species Afromysis kensleyi Wooldridge & Victor, 2005
Species Afromysis macropsis W. Tattersall, 1922
Species Afromysis ornata O. Tattersall, 1957

Species Afromysis australiensis W. Tattersall, 1940 accepted as Doxomysis australiensis (W. Tattersall, 1940)
Species Afromysis bainbridge O. Tattersall, 1957 accepted as Afromysis bainbridgei O. Tattersall, 1957
Links To NeMys
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:161526
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-06-30 11:34:57Z  created  db_admin
2006-09-04 10:51:58Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2009-11-23 07:56:56Z  checked  Mees, Jan
2010-03-31 11:32:01Z  changed  Mees, Jan
2011-03-25 08:04:04Z  changed  Mees, Jan
  
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  Citation: Mees, J. (2013). Afromysis Zimmer, 1916. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=161526 on 2013-05-22
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