''Neomysis'' (from the
Greek affix ''
neo-'', "new", and the genus name ''
Mysis
''Mysis'' is a genus of mysid crustaceans in the family Mysidae, distributed mainly in the coastal zone of the Arctic and high boreal seas. Several species also inhabit northern freshwater lakes and the brackish Caspian Sea. Fifteen species are ...
'') is a genus of
opossum shrimp
Mysida is an order of small, shrimp-like crustaceans in the malacostracan superorder Peracarida. Their common name opossum shrimps stems from the presence of a brood pouch or "marsupium" in females. The fact that the larvae are reared in this ...
(
mysid
Mysida is an order of small, shrimp-like crustaceans in the malacostracan superorder Peracarida. Their common name opossum shrimps stems from the presence of a brood pouch or "marsupium" in females. The fact that the larvae are reared in thi ...
crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group ...
) from the family
Mysidae
Mysidae is the largest family (biology), family of crustaceans in the order (biology), order Mysida, with over 1000 species in around 170 genera.
Characteristics
Members of the family Mysidae are distinguished from other mysids by the fact that ...
, distributed in the coastal zone of temperate seas of the
Northern Hemisphere
The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator. For other planets in the Solar System, north is defined as being in the same celestial hemisphere relative to the invariable plane of the solar system as Earth's Nort ...
and
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southe ...
. Several species, particularly from the West
Pacific, are also found in fresh and brackish waters. The genus contains the following 18 species:
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Neomysis americana''
(S. I. Smith, 1873)
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Neomysis awatschensis''
(Brandt, 1851)
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Neomysis czerniawskii''
Derzhavin, 1913
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Neomysis ilyapai''
Holmquist, 1957
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Neomysis integer''
(Leach, 1814)
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Neomysis intermedia''
(Czerniavsky, 1882)
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Neomysis japonica''
Nakazawa, 1910
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Neomysis kadiakensis''
Ortmann, 1908
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Neomysis mercedis''
Holmes, 1896
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Neomysis meridionalis''
Colosi, 1924
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Neomysis mirabilis''
(Czerniavsky, 1882)
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Neomysis monticellii''
Colosi, 1924
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Neomysis nakazawai''
Ii, 1936
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Neomysis orientalis''
Ii, 1964
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Neomysis patagona''
Zimmer, 1907
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Neomysis rayii''
(Murdoch, 1885)
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Neomysis sopayi''
Holmquist, 1957
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Neomysis spinosa''
Nakazawa, 1910
References
Mysida
Malacostraca genera
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