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Mysidacea taxon details

Mysidopsis almyra Bowman, 1964 
AphiaID: 226213

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
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Accepted name  Americamysis almyra (Bowman, 1964)
Rank Species
Parent Mysidopsis G.O. Sars, 1864
Sources  original description: Bowman, T.E. (1964) Mysidopsis almyra, a new estuarine mysid crustacean from Louisiana and Florida. - Tulane Stud. Zool., 12 (1): 15-19 [details]

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

Distribution Chesapeake Bay [details]
Florida [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Lake Pontchartrain [details]
Louisiana [details]
Mexican Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
St. Andrews Bay [details]

Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Shrimp Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Depth range: 0.5-2m [details]

Habitat: epibenthic on sand and debris [details]

Remark: july specimens obtained from fresh water; seems to tolerate a wide range of salinity (0-32L)and is an important food for juvenile demersal fishes [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:226213
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2006-05-10 15:31:07Z  created  db_admin
2010-02-10 08:18:28Z  checked  Mees, Jan
  
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  Citation: Mees, J. (2013). Mysidopsis almyra Bowman, 1964. Accessed through: Mees, J. & K. Meland (Eds) (2012 onwards) World List of Lophogastrida, Stygiomysida and Mysida at http://www.marinespecies.org/mysidacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=226213 on 2013-05-23