Distribution Russia: in Don River and Volga River [estuaries].
In the Caspian Sea, confined mostly to the east coast (Kazakhstan and...
Distribution Russia: in Don River and Volga River [estuaries].
In the Caspian Sea, confined mostly to the east coast (Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan), but not recorded there since 1930s. [details]
Mees, J.; Meland, K.; Väinölä, R. (Eds) (2012 onwards). World List of Lophogastrida, Stygiomysida and Mysida. Hemimysis anomala G.O. Sars, 1907. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=120025 on 2025-07-17
original descriptionSars, G.O. (1907). Mysidae. <em>Trudy Kaspiiskoi Ekspeditsii 1904 goda.</em> 1: 243-313, pls. I-XII. M. P. Frolov, S-Peterburg. (look up in IMIS) page(s): 270 [details]
Ecology
ecology sourceBacescu, M. (1954). Mysidacea. <em>In: Fauna Republicii Populare Romîne, Crustacea, IV (3). Academia Republicii Populare Romîne, Bucuresti.</em> Pages 1-126.[details] Available for editors [request]
Other
context source (Schelde)(2011). Indicatoren voor het Schelde-estuarium. <em>VLIZ Special Publication, 50. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ): Oostende. ISBN 978-90-817451-0-9.</em> 165 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional sourceSars, G.O. (1907). Mysidae. <em>Trudy Kaspiiskoi Ekspeditsii 1904 goda.</em> 1: 243-313, pls. I-XII. M. P. Frolov, S-Peterburg. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional sourceZHURAVEL (1968). Formation de bioscenoses de la faune du delta caspien dans les nouveaux réservoirs d'U.R.S.S. Gidrobiol. Zh. Ukrain 4(2): 73-77[details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceWittmann, K. J.; Ariani, A. P.; Daneliya, M. (2016). The Mysidae (Crustacea: Peracarida: Mysida) in fresh and oligohaline waters of the Mediterranean. Taxonomy, biogeography, and bioinvasion. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4142(1): 1., available online athttps://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4142.1.1[details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceDaneliya, M. E.; Wittmann, K. J. (2021). Conservation of Continental Mysida and Stygiomysida. In: Rogers C.D; Kawai, T. (eds), Recent Advances in Freshwater Crustacean Biodiversity and Conservation (Crustacean Issues Vol. 20). <em>CRC Press.</em> p. 307-346., available online athttps://doi.org/10.1201/9781003139560-10[details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceRogissart, H.; Marty, J.; Grimond, J.; Frossard, V.; Jacquet, S. (2025). The invasive mysid Hemimysis anomala: an up-to-date review of its biology, ecology, distribution and ecological impacts. <em>NeoBiota.</em> 98: 117-144., available online athttps://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.98.144040[details]
additional sourceDerzhavin, A. N. (1939). Mizidy Kaspiya. Azerbaidzhanskii Filial Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Baku.[details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceBacescu, M. (1937). Cateva animale noui pentry fauna marina romaneasca si unele date biologica auspra lor. <em>Bull. Soc. Nat. Rom.</em> 11: 8-19.[details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceDEDIU, I.I. (1966). Répartition et charactéristique écologique des mysides des bassins des rivières Dniestr et Pruth. - Rev. roum. Biol. (Zool.), 11: 233-239. [ecology[details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceGasiunas, I.I. (1968). Akklimatizatsiya mizidy Hemimysis anomala Sars v vodokhranilishche Kaunasskoi GES [Acclimatization of the mysid Hemimysis anomala Sars in the Water Reservoir of the Kaunas HEPS]. <em>Lietuvos TSR Mokslu akademijos darbai, C serija.</em> 3(47) 71-73.[details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceKarpevich, A.F. & Bokova, E.N. (1963). Peresadka ryb i vodnykh bespozvonochnykh provedennaya v SSSR za 1960-1961 gg. <em>Voprosy ikhtiologii.</em> 3(2): 366-395.[details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceKELLEHER, B.; VAN DER VELDE, G.; WITTMANN, K. FAASSE M.; BIJ DE VAATE, A. (1999). Current status of the freshwater Mysidae in the Netherlands, with records of Limnomysis benedeni Czerniavsky, 1882, a pontocaspian species in dutch rhine branches Bulletin zoölogische museum, Universiteit Amsterdam 16(13):89-93[details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceMüller, H. G. (1993). World catalogue and bibliography of the recent Mysidacea. 238p.[details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceBacescu, M. (1938): Hemimysis serrata nov. sp., un mysidacé nouveau trouvé dans la mer Noire. - Ann. Sci. Univ. Jassy, 24: 425-438[details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceTattersall, W.M.; Tattersall, O.S. (1951). The British Mysidacea. <em>Ray Society, London.</em> 1-460, figs. 1-118. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceStreftaris, N., A. Zenetos & E. Papathanassiou. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. <em>Oceanogry and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 43: 419-453. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceGordan, J. (1957). A bibliography of the order Mysidacea. <em>Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.</em> 112 (4): 281-393.[details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceBacescu, M. (1940). Les Mysidacés des eaux Roumaines (Étude taxonomique, morphologique, bio-géographique et biologique). <em>Ann. Sci. Univ. Jassy.</em> 26: 453-804, 4 pls.[details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceVerslycke, T.; Janssen, C.; Lock, K.; Mees, J. (2000). First occurrence of the Pontocaspian invader Hemimysis anomala (Sars, 1907) in Belgium (Crustacea: Mysidacea). <em>Belgian Journal of Zoology.</em> 130(2): 157-158.[details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceBacescu, M. (1936). Hemimysis lamornae, subsp., reducta nov. subsp. et Hemimysis anomala, dans les eaux Roumaines de la Mer Noire (avec une étude comparative des formes de Hem. lamornae des autres mers: H.L. typica et H.L mediterranea nov. sbsp.). <em>Annales Scientifiques de l´Université de Jassy.</em> 19 (1-4): 331-338.[details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceAudzijonyte, A.; Wittmann, K. J.; Väinölä, R. (2008). Tracing recent invasions of the Ponto-Caspian mysid shrimp Hemimysis anomala across Europe and to North America with mitochondrial DNA. <em>Diversity and Distributions.</em> 14: 179-186.[details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceBacescu, M. (1936). Les représentants du genre Hemimysis Sars dans la Mer Noire. <em>Comptes Rendus des Séances de l´Académie des Sciences de Roumanie.</em> 1: 1-3.[details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceBacescu, M. (1949). Données sur la faune carcinologique de la Mer Noire de long de la côte Bulgare. <em>Travaux Station Biologique Maritine de Varna (Bulgarie).</em> 14 (1948): 1-24 (in French).[details] Available for editors [request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Depth range littoral-60 m [details] Distribution Russia: in Don River and Volga River [estuaries].
In the Caspian Sea, confined mostly to the east coast (Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan), but not recorded there since 1930s. [details] Introduced species abundance in United Kingdom, freshwater boating marina pond : Fluctuating [details] Introduced species impact United Kingdom, freshwater boating marina pond : Alters trophic interactions [details] alien species The bloody-red shrimp Hemimysis anomala occurs naturally in the Caspian Sea, the Black Sea, and rivers in Russia, where lots of loose rocks or clayey banks with cavities are present. The bloody-red shrimp was introduced as fish food in a number of waters of the former Soviet Union. However, the populations expanded and colonized European waters. This alien shrimp was observed on October 12th 1999 in a brackish water pond nearby the Antwerp harbor. It is an efficient omnivore that can thrive in stagnant as well as streaming water. Since the bloody-red shrimp cannot survive in high salinity water, the distribution is restricted to brackish estuaries. [details]
From regional or thematic species database
Introduced species vector dispersal in Belgian part of the North Sea: Ships: accidental with ballast water, sea water systems, live wells or other deck basins [details]