MSBIAS taxon details
Heteromysis (Heteromysis) formosa S. I. Smith, 1874
148701 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148701)
accepted
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Smith, S.I. (1873) Crustacea. In: Baird, S.F. (Ed.) Report of Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries on the Condition of the Sea-fisheries of the South Coast of New England in 1871 and 1872545-567, 573-580.
page(s): 553 [details]
page(s): 553 [details]
Mees, J.; Meland, K.; Väinölä, R. (Eds) (2012 onwards). World List of Lophogastrida, Stygiomysida and Mysida. Heteromysis (Heteromysis) formosa S. I. Smith, 1874. Accessed through: The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2025) Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=148701 on 2025-05-24
The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2025). Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Heteromysis (Heteromysis) formosa S. I. Smith, 1874. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=148701 on 2025-05-24
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Smith, S.I. (1873) Crustacea. In: Baird, S.F. (Ed.) Report of Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries on the Condition of the Sea-fisheries of the South Coast of New England in 1871 and 1872545-567, 573-580.
page(s): 553 [details]
taxonomy source Zimmer, C. (1904). Die Arktischen Schizopoden. <em>In "Fauna Arctica" (F. Römer & F. Schaudinn, eds.). Gustav Fischer, Jena.</em> 3: 415-492. [details]
taxonomy source Stebbing T.R.R. (1893). A History of Crustacea. Recent Malacostraca. D. Appleton & Company, New York, 466 pp.; 32 figs.; 19 pls. [details]
taxonomy source Allee, W. C. (1923). Studies in marine ecology. III. Some physical factors related to the distribution of littoral invertebrates. <em>Biol. Bull. Woods Hole.</em> 44: 205-253. [details]
taxonomy source Lagardère, J.-P.; Nouvel, H. (1980). Les mysidacés du talus continental du golfe de Gascogne. 2. Familles des Lophogastridae, Eucopiidae et Mysidae (tribu des Erythropini exceptée). <em>Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> 2(2): 375-412; 2 (3): 845-887.
note: Split off the NE Atlantic H. norvegica Sars, 1883 as a separate species, H. formosa restricted to the American coast. [details] Available for editors
taxonomy source Norman, A.M. 1892 . On British Mysidae, a family of Crustacea Schizopoda. - Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., ser. 6, 10: 143-166, 242-263, 2pls, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27658748 [details]
taxonomy source Zimmer C. (1909): Die nordischen Schizopoden. K. Brandt & C. Apstein (eds.), Nordisches Plankton. Lipsius und Tischler, Kiel und Leipzig, 6: 1-178 [details]
taxonomy source Gordan, J. (1957). A bibliography of the order Mysidacea. <em>Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.</em> 112 (4): 281-393. [details] Available for editors
basis of record Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source 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 Price, W. (2001). World list of Mysidacea. [details]
additional source Müller, H. G. (1993). World catalogue and bibliography of the recent Mysidacea. 238p.
note: lists H. formosa in synonymy of H. norvegica Sars, 1883! [details] Available for editors
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
additional source Garstang, Walter. (1894). Faunistic notes at Plymouth during 1893-1984. With observations on the breeding seasons of marine animals, and on the periodic changes of the floating fauna. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Plymouth. New Series.</em> 3(3): 210-235., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11561402 [details]
additional source Holt, E.W.L., & W.I. Beaumont. 1900 (1902). Survey of fishing grounds, west coast of Ireland, 1890-1891. X.- Report on the Crustacea Schizopoda of Ireland.-- The Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, Ser. 2, 7 (7): 221-252 (1 plate). [details]
additional source Norman, A.M. & T. Scott (1906): Mysidacea. In: The Crustacea of Devon and Cornwall. London, W. Wesley and Son, pp. 23-28, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1595685 [details]
additional source Tattersall, 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
additional source Step, E. (1896). A list of British stalk-eyed Crustacea, compiled for the use of readers of Bell's "History of British stalk-eyed Crustacea". <em>Abstr. Proc. Sth. London Ent. Nat. Hist. Soc.</em> 1895: 92-9. [details]
additional source Tattersall, W. M. (1938). The seasonal occurence of mysids off Plymouth. <em>J. Mar. Biol. ASS: U.K.</em> 23: 43-56. [details] Available for editors
additional source Tattersall, W. M. (1951). A review of the Mysidacea of the United States National Museum. <em>Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin.</em> 201: 1-292., available online at https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=-vhMAAAAYAAJ&rdid=book--vhMAAAAYAAJ [details] Available for editors
additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source Brattegard, T. (1969). Marine biological Investigations in the Bahamas 10. Mysidacea from shallow water in the Bahamas and southern Florida. Part 1. <em>Sarsia.</em> 39: 17-106. [details] Available for editors
additional source Escobar-Briones, E.; Soto, L. A. (1991). Biogeografia de los Misidáceos (Crustacea: Peracarida) del Golfo de México. <em>Caribb. J. Sci.</em> 27 (1-2): 80-89. [details] Available for editors
additional source Gordan, J. (1957). A bibliography of the order Mysidacea. <em>Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.</em> 112 (4): 281-393.
note: includes H. norvegica Sars, 1883 as synonym [details] Available for editors
additional source MAUCHLINE, J. (1971). Rare species of Mysidacea (Crustacea) from the west coast of Scotland. - J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K., 51: 799-808 [details] Available for editors
additional source MAUCHLINE, J. (1971). Seasonal occurence of mysids (Crustacea) and evidence of social behaviour. - J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K., 51: 809-825. [biology, ecology [details] Available for editors
additional source MAUCHLINE, J. (1971). The fauna of the clyde sea area. Crustacea: Mysidacea, with a key to the species. In H.T. Powell (ed.), The Fauna of the Clyde Sea Area. Scott. mar. biol. Ass., Oban: 26pp [details] Available for editors
additional source NOUVEL, H. (1940). Observations sur la sexualité d'un Mysidacé, Heteromysis armoricana n.sp. - Bull. Inst. océanogr. Monaco, 789: 1-11 [details] Available for editors
additional source Scott, T. (1901). Land, fresh-water and marine Crustacea. <em>In: Scott, E.G.F. et al. (eds.), Fauna, Flora and geology of the Clyde area. Glasgow, Brit. Ass. Adv. Sci. Glasgow, pp.328-358.</em> :328-358. [details]
additional source STUCK, K.C., H.M. PERRY & R.W. HEARD (1979). An annoted key to the Mysidacea of the North Central Gulf of Mexico. - Gulf Res. Rep., 6 (3): 225-238 [details] Available for editors
additional source Price, W. W. and R. W. Heard. 2009. Mysida (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 929–939 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
additional source Heard, R.W., W.W. Price, D.M. Knott, R.A. King & D.M. Allen, 2006. A taxonomic guide to the mysids of the South Atlantic Bight. NOAA Professional Paper NMFS, 4: i-iii, 1-37. [details] Available for editors
additional source Escobar-Briones, E.; Soto, L.A. (1990). Heteromysis mexicana, a new species from Campeche Bank, Gulf of Mexico (Crustacea: Mysidacea). <em>Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.</em> 103 (1): 131-139. [details]
additional source Hanamura, Y.; Kase, T. (2001). A new species of Heteromysoides (Mysidacea: Mysidae) from submarine caves of Okinawa, southwestern Japan, with a key to the world species. <em>Crustacean Research.</em> 30: 65-71. [details] Available for editors
additional source Künne, C. 1939. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Mysideenfauna der südlichen Nordsee.-- Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 72: 329-358. [details] Available for editors
additional source Tattersall, O.S. (1949). A rare species of mysid from the Plymouth area. - Nature, London, 163 (4142): 450 [details] Available for editors
additional source Wigley, R. L.; Burns, B. R. (1971). Distribution and biology of mysids (Crustacea, Mysidacea) from the Atlantic coast of the U.S. in the NMFS Woods Hole collection. <em>Fish. Bull.</em> 69 (4): 717-746. [details] Available for editors
additional source Bacescu, M. (1941). Les Mysidacés des eaux méditerranéennes de la France (spécialement de Banyuls) et des eaux de Monaco. <em>Bull. Inst. Océanogr.</em> 795: 1-46. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Bacescu, M. (1986). Heteromysis mureseanui n.sp. and Kalliapseudes viridis, ssp. brasiliensis n. ssp., from the Brazilian littoral waters. <em>Revue Roumaine de Biologie. Série de Biologie Animale.</em> 31 (2): 93-97. [details] Available for editors
additional source FARRAN G. P. (1912). Clare Island Survey: Decapoda Proceedings of the royal Irish Academy 40: 1-8 [details]
additional source KöHN, J.; JONES, M.B. (1991). Taxonomy, Biology and Ecology of (Baltic) Mysidacea International Expert Conference, Hiddensee, Germany [details] Available for editors
ecology source Lagardère, J.-P. (1977). Recherches sur la distribution verticale et sur l'alimentation des crustacés décapodes benthiques de la pente continentale du Golfe de Gascogne. Analyse des groupements carcinologiques. <em>Bulletin du Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Scientifiques Biarritz.</em> 11: 367-440. [details] Available for editors
identification resource Schlacher, T. A.; Wittmann, K. J.; Ariani, A. P. (1992). Comparative morphology and actuopalaeontology of mysid statoliths (Crustacea, Mysidacea). <em>Zoomorphology.</em> 112: 67-79. [details] Available for editors
identification resource Tattersall, 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
page(s): 553 [details]
taxonomy source Zimmer, C. (1904). Die Arktischen Schizopoden. <em>In "Fauna Arctica" (F. Römer & F. Schaudinn, eds.). Gustav Fischer, Jena.</em> 3: 415-492. [details]
taxonomy source Stebbing T.R.R. (1893). A History of Crustacea. Recent Malacostraca. D. Appleton & Company, New York, 466 pp.; 32 figs.; 19 pls. [details]
taxonomy source Allee, W. C. (1923). Studies in marine ecology. III. Some physical factors related to the distribution of littoral invertebrates. <em>Biol. Bull. Woods Hole.</em> 44: 205-253. [details]
taxonomy source Lagardère, J.-P.; Nouvel, H. (1980). Les mysidacés du talus continental du golfe de Gascogne. 2. Familles des Lophogastridae, Eucopiidae et Mysidae (tribu des Erythropini exceptée). <em>Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> 2(2): 375-412; 2 (3): 845-887.
note: Split off the NE Atlantic H. norvegica Sars, 1883 as a separate species, H. formosa restricted to the American coast. [details] Available for editors
taxonomy source Norman, A.M. 1892 . On British Mysidae, a family of Crustacea Schizopoda. - Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., ser. 6, 10: 143-166, 242-263, 2pls, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27658748 [details]
taxonomy source Zimmer C. (1909): Die nordischen Schizopoden. K. Brandt & C. Apstein (eds.), Nordisches Plankton. Lipsius und Tischler, Kiel und Leipzig, 6: 1-178 [details]
taxonomy source Gordan, J. (1957). A bibliography of the order Mysidacea. <em>Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.</em> 112 (4): 281-393. [details] Available for editors
basis of record Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source 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 Price, W. (2001). World list of Mysidacea. [details]
additional source Müller, H. G. (1993). World catalogue and bibliography of the recent Mysidacea. 238p.
note: lists H. formosa in synonymy of H. norvegica Sars, 1883! [details] Available for editors
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
additional source Garstang, Walter. (1894). Faunistic notes at Plymouth during 1893-1984. With observations on the breeding seasons of marine animals, and on the periodic changes of the floating fauna. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Plymouth. New Series.</em> 3(3): 210-235., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11561402 [details]
additional source Holt, E.W.L., & W.I. Beaumont. 1900 (1902). Survey of fishing grounds, west coast of Ireland, 1890-1891. X.- Report on the Crustacea Schizopoda of Ireland.-- The Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, Ser. 2, 7 (7): 221-252 (1 plate). [details]
additional source Norman, A.M. & T. Scott (1906): Mysidacea. In: The Crustacea of Devon and Cornwall. London, W. Wesley and Son, pp. 23-28, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1595685 [details]
additional source Tattersall, 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
additional source Step, E. (1896). A list of British stalk-eyed Crustacea, compiled for the use of readers of Bell's "History of British stalk-eyed Crustacea". <em>Abstr. Proc. Sth. London Ent. Nat. Hist. Soc.</em> 1895: 92-9. [details]
additional source Tattersall, W. M. (1938). The seasonal occurence of mysids off Plymouth. <em>J. Mar. Biol. ASS: U.K.</em> 23: 43-56. [details] Available for editors
additional source Tattersall, W. M. (1951). A review of the Mysidacea of the United States National Museum. <em>Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin.</em> 201: 1-292., available online at https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=-vhMAAAAYAAJ&rdid=book--vhMAAAAYAAJ [details] Available for editors
additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source Brattegard, T. (1969). Marine biological Investigations in the Bahamas 10. Mysidacea from shallow water in the Bahamas and southern Florida. Part 1. <em>Sarsia.</em> 39: 17-106. [details] Available for editors
additional source Escobar-Briones, E.; Soto, L. A. (1991). Biogeografia de los Misidáceos (Crustacea: Peracarida) del Golfo de México. <em>Caribb. J. Sci.</em> 27 (1-2): 80-89. [details] Available for editors
additional source Gordan, J. (1957). A bibliography of the order Mysidacea. <em>Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.</em> 112 (4): 281-393.
note: includes H. norvegica Sars, 1883 as synonym [details] Available for editors
additional source MAUCHLINE, J. (1971). Rare species of Mysidacea (Crustacea) from the west coast of Scotland. - J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K., 51: 799-808 [details] Available for editors
additional source MAUCHLINE, J. (1971). Seasonal occurence of mysids (Crustacea) and evidence of social behaviour. - J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K., 51: 809-825. [biology, ecology [details] Available for editors
additional source MAUCHLINE, J. (1971). The fauna of the clyde sea area. Crustacea: Mysidacea, with a key to the species. In H.T. Powell (ed.), The Fauna of the Clyde Sea Area. Scott. mar. biol. Ass., Oban: 26pp [details] Available for editors
additional source NOUVEL, H. (1940). Observations sur la sexualité d'un Mysidacé, Heteromysis armoricana n.sp. - Bull. Inst. océanogr. Monaco, 789: 1-11 [details] Available for editors
additional source Scott, T. (1901). Land, fresh-water and marine Crustacea. <em>In: Scott, E.G.F. et al. (eds.), Fauna, Flora and geology of the Clyde area. Glasgow, Brit. Ass. Adv. Sci. Glasgow, pp.328-358.</em> :328-358. [details]
additional source STUCK, K.C., H.M. PERRY & R.W. HEARD (1979). An annoted key to the Mysidacea of the North Central Gulf of Mexico. - Gulf Res. Rep., 6 (3): 225-238 [details] Available for editors
additional source Price, W. W. and R. W. Heard. 2009. Mysida (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 929–939 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
additional source Heard, R.W., W.W. Price, D.M. Knott, R.A. King & D.M. Allen, 2006. A taxonomic guide to the mysids of the South Atlantic Bight. NOAA Professional Paper NMFS, 4: i-iii, 1-37. [details] Available for editors
additional source Escobar-Briones, E.; Soto, L.A. (1990). Heteromysis mexicana, a new species from Campeche Bank, Gulf of Mexico (Crustacea: Mysidacea). <em>Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.</em> 103 (1): 131-139. [details]
additional source Hanamura, Y.; Kase, T. (2001). A new species of Heteromysoides (Mysidacea: Mysidae) from submarine caves of Okinawa, southwestern Japan, with a key to the world species. <em>Crustacean Research.</em> 30: 65-71. [details] Available for editors
additional source Künne, C. 1939. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Mysideenfauna der südlichen Nordsee.-- Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 72: 329-358. [details] Available for editors
additional source Tattersall, O.S. (1949). A rare species of mysid from the Plymouth area. - Nature, London, 163 (4142): 450 [details] Available for editors
additional source Wigley, R. L.; Burns, B. R. (1971). Distribution and biology of mysids (Crustacea, Mysidacea) from the Atlantic coast of the U.S. in the NMFS Woods Hole collection. <em>Fish. Bull.</em> 69 (4): 717-746. [details] Available for editors
additional source Bacescu, M. (1941). Les Mysidacés des eaux méditerranéennes de la France (spécialement de Banyuls) et des eaux de Monaco. <em>Bull. Inst. Océanogr.</em> 795: 1-46. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Bacescu, M. (1986). Heteromysis mureseanui n.sp. and Kalliapseudes viridis, ssp. brasiliensis n. ssp., from the Brazilian littoral waters. <em>Revue Roumaine de Biologie. Série de Biologie Animale.</em> 31 (2): 93-97. [details] Available for editors
additional source FARRAN G. P. (1912). Clare Island Survey: Decapoda Proceedings of the royal Irish Academy 40: 1-8 [details]
additional source KöHN, J.; JONES, M.B. (1991). Taxonomy, Biology and Ecology of (Baltic) Mysidacea International Expert Conference, Hiddensee, Germany [details] Available for editors
ecology source Lagardère, J.-P. (1977). Recherches sur la distribution verticale et sur l'alimentation des crustacés décapodes benthiques de la pente continentale du Golfe de Gascogne. Analyse des groupements carcinologiques. <em>Bulletin du Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Scientifiques Biarritz.</em> 11: 367-440. [details] Available for editors
identification resource Schlacher, T. A.; Wittmann, K. J.; Ariani, A. P. (1992). Comparative morphology and actuopalaeontology of mysid statoliths (Crustacea, Mysidacea). <em>Zoomorphology.</em> 112: 67-79. [details] Available for editors
identification resource Tattersall, 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
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