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Family: Mysidae (See list of species below)

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203 species with fin ray counts including ? spines in dorsal and ? in anal fins (see list below)

No picture found Aberomysis muranoi []	No picture found Acanthomysis hwanhaiensis []	No picture found Acanthomysis latiscauda []
No picture found Acanthomysis longicauda []	No picture found Acanthomysis longicornis []	No picture found Acanthomysis longirostris []
No picture found Acanthomysis quadrispinosa []	No picture found Acanthomysis sinensis []	No picture found Acanthomysis strauchi []
No picture found Afromysis kensleyi []	No picture found Amblyopsoides crozetii []	No picture found Americamysis bahia []
No picture found Americamysis bigelowi []	No picture found Anchialina agilis []	No picture found Anchialina dentata []
No picture found Anchialina grossa []	No picture found Anchialina oculata []	No picture found Anchialina typica []
No picture found Anisomysis arabica []	No picture found Anisomysis bipartoculata []	No picture found Anisomysis ijimai []
No picture found Anisomysis incisa []	No picture found Anisomysis laticauda []	No picture found Anisomysis pelewensis []
Antarctomysis maxima []	Antarctomysis ohlini []	No picture found Arachnomysis leuckartii []
No picture found Archaeomysis vulgaris []	No picture found Boreomysis arctica []	No picture found Boreomysis brucei []
No picture found Boreomysis megalops []	No picture found Boreomysis nobilis []	No picture found Boreomysis obtusata []
Boreomysis rostrata []	No picture found Boreomysis semicoeca []	No picture found Bowmaniella portoricensis []
No picture found Burrimysis palmeri []	No picture found Calyptomma puritani []	No picture found Dactylamblyops hodgsoni []
No picture found Diamysis bacescui []	No picture found Diamysis bahirensis []	No picture found Diamysis lagunaris []
No picture found Diamysis mesohalobia []	No picture found Doxomysis quadrispinosa []	No picture found Erythrops abyssorum []
No picture found Erythrops africana []	No picture found Erythrops alboranus []	No picture found Erythrops elegans []
No picture found Erythrops erythrophthalma []	No picture found Erythrops glacialis []	No picture found Erythrops minuta []
No picture found Erythrops neapolitana []	No picture found Erythrops peterdohrni []	No picture found Erythrops serrata []
No picture found Euchaetomera glyphidophthalmica []	No picture found Euchaetomera intermedia []	No picture found Euchaetomera oculata []
No picture found Euchaetomera plebeja []	No picture found Euchaetomera richardi []	No picture found Euchaetomera tenuis []
No picture found Euchaetomera typica []	No picture found Euchaetomera zurstrasseni []	No picture found Euchaetomeropsis merolepis []
No picture found Gastrosaccus formosensis []	No picture found Gastrosaccus hibii []	No picture found Gastrosaccus kempi []
No picture found Gastrosaccus mediterraneus []	No picture found Gastrosaccus pelagicus []	No picture found Gastrosaccus roscoffensis []
No picture found Gastrosaccus sanctus []	No picture found Gastrosaccus spinifer []	No picture found Haplostylus bacescui []
No picture found Haplostylus bengalensis []	No picture found Haplostylus lobatus []	No picture found Haplostylus magnilobatus []
No picture found Haplostylus normani []	No picture found Haplostylus parerythraeus []	No picture found Haplostylus quadrispinosus []
No picture found Harmelinella mariannae []	No picture found Hemimysis abyssicola []	No picture found Hemimysis anomala [Bloody-red shrimp]
No picture found Hemimysis lamornae []	No picture found Hemimysis margalefi []	No picture found Hemimysis speluncola []
No picture found Hemisiriella parva []	No picture found Hemisiriella pulchra []	No picture found Heteromysis arianii []
No picture found Heteromysis eideri []	No picture found Heteromysis ekamako []	No picture found Heteromysis harpaxoides []
No picture found Heteromysis lybiana []	No picture found Heteromysis meenakshiae []	No picture found Heteromysis microps []
No picture found Heteromysis muelleri []	No picture found Heteromysis norvegica []	No picture found Heteromysis proxima []
No picture found Heteromysis riedli []	No picture found Heteromysis spinosa []	No picture found Holmesimysis costata []
No picture found Hypererythrops richardi []	No picture found Hypererythrops spinifera []	No picture found Hypererythrops zimmeri []
No picture found Indomysis annandalei []	No picture found Indomysis nybini []	No picture found Kainomatomysis foxi []
No picture found Leptomysis buergii []	No picture found Leptomysis gracilis []	No picture found Leptomysis heterophila []
No picture found Leptomysis lingvura []	No picture found Leptomysis mediterranea []	No picture found Leptomysis megalops []
No picture found Leptomysis posidoniae []	No picture found Leptomysis truncata []	No picture found Limnomysis benedeni []
No picture found Lycomysis platycauda []	No picture found Mesopodopsis aegyptia []	No picture found Mesopodopsis slabberi []
No picture found Meterythrops robusta []	No picture found Michthyops arcticus []	No picture found Michthyops theeli []
No picture found Mysideis parva []	No picture found Mysidella biscayensis []	No picture found Mysidella typica []
No picture found Mysidetes brachylepis []	No picture found Mysidetes dimorpha []	No picture found Mysidetes farrani []
No picture found Mysidetes kerguelensis []	No picture found Mysidetes macrops []	No picture found Mysidetes microps []
No picture found Mysidetes posthon []	No picture found Mysidopsis acuta []	No picture found Mysidopsis angusta []
No picture found Mysidopsis didelphys []	No picture found Mysidopsis gibbosa []	No picture found Mysidopsis indica []
No picture found Mysidopsis kempi []	No picture found Mysidopsis kenyana []	No picture found Mysis australe []
No picture found Mysis litoralis []	No picture found Mysis mixta []	No picture found Mysis nordenskioldi []
No picture found Mysis oculata []	No picture found Mysis relicta []	Neobirsteiniamysis inermis []
No picture found Neomysis americana []	No picture found Neomysis awatschensis []	No picture found Neomysis integer []
No picture found Neomysis mercedis []	No picture found Neomysis rayii []	No picture found Palaumysis simonae []
No picture found Paraleptomysis apiops []	No picture found Paraleptomysis banyulensis []	No picture found Paramblyops rostrata []
No picture found Paramysis arenosa []	No picture found Paramysis festae []	No picture found Paramysis helleri []
No picture found Parapseudomma calloplura []	No picture found Parerythrops lobiancoi []	No picture found Parerythrops obesa []
No picture found Parerythrops spectabilis []	No picture found Praunus flexuosus [Bent mysid shrimp]	No picture found Praunus inermis []
No picture found Praunus neglectus []	No picture found Promysis orientalis []	No picture found Pseudanchialina inermis []
No picture found Pseudanchialina pusilla []	No picture found Pseudomma affine []	No picture found Pseudomma armatum []
No picture found Pseudomma chattoni []	No picture found Pseudomma kruppi []	No picture found Pseudomma nanum []
No picture found Pseudomma roseum []	No picture found Pseudomma sarsii []	No picture found Pseudomma truncatum []
No picture found Pseudomysis abyssi []	No picture found Pyroleptomysis peresi []	No picture found Pyroleptomysis rubra []
No picture found Retromysis nura []	No picture found Rhopalophthalmus mediterraneus []	No picture found Schistomysis assimilis []
No picture found Schistomysis kervillei []	No picture found Schistomysis ornata []	No picture found Schistomysis spiritus []
No picture found Siriella adriatica []	No picture found Siriella aequiremis []	No picture found Siriella anomala []
No picture found Siriella armata []	No picture found Siriella bacescui []	No picture found Siriella brevicaudata []
No picture found Siriella castellabatensis []	No picture found Siriella clausi []	No picture found Siriella gracilipes []
No picture found Siriella gracilis []	No picture found Siriella hanseni []	No picture found Siriella inornata []
No picture found Siriella jaltensis []	No picture found Siriella media []	No picture found Siriella norvegica []
No picture found Siriella sinensis []	No picture found Siriella thompsonii []	No picture found Siriella trispina []
No picture found Siriella vulgaris []	No picture found Stilomysis grandis []

203 Species of Family Mysidae
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Scientific Name	English Name	Distribution	Max. Length (cm)
Aberomysis muranoi		Western Pacific
Acanthomysis hwanhaiensis		Northwest Pacific
Acanthomysis latiscauda		Northwest Pacific
Acanthomysis longicauda		Northwest Pacific
Acanthomysis longicornis		Northeast Atlantic, Indo-
Acanthomysis longirostris		Northwest Pacific
Acanthomysis quadrispinosa		Northwest Pacific
Acanthomysis sinensis		Northwest Pacific
Acanthomysis strauchi		Black Sea and the Mediter
Afromysis kensleyi		Western Indian Ocean
Amblyopsoides crozetii		Antarctic Indian Ocean
Americamysis bahia		Northwest Atlantic
Americamysis bigelowi		North Western Atlantic.
Anchialina agilis		Northwest Atlantic and th
Anchialina dentata		Western Pacific
Anchialina grossa		Indo-West Pacific.
Anchialina oculata		Mediterranean Sea
Anchialina typica		Northwest Pacific
Anisomysis arabica		Western Indian Ocean
Anisomysis bipartoculata		Northwest Pacific
Anisomysis ijimai		Northwest Pacific
Anisomysis incisa		Canada.
Anisomysis laticauda		Canada.
Anisomysis pelewensis		Pacific Ocean.
Antarctomysis maxima		Antarctic.
Antarctomysis ohlini		Antarctic Atlantic
Arachnomysis leuckartii		Indo-Pacific, Atlantic an
Archaeomysis vulgaris		Northwest Pacific
Boreomysis arctica		Arctic, Atlantic, Indo-Pa
Boreomysis brucei		Antarctic Atlantic
Boreomysis megalops		Northern Atlantic and the
Boreomysis nobilis		Arctic
Boreomysis obtusata		Northwest Pacific and Eas
Boreomysis rostrata		Southern Ocean and Northe
Boreomysis semicoeca		Northern Pacific, Western
Bowmaniella portoricensis		Western Central Atlantic
Burrimysis palmeri		Mediterranean Sea
Calyptomma puritani		Mediterranean Sea
Dactylamblyops hodgsoni		Antarctic Atlantic
Diamysis bacescui		Mediterranean Sea.
Diamysis bahirensis		Atlantic, Black Sea and t
Diamysis lagunaris		Northeast Atlantic and th
Diamysis mesohalobia		Mediterranean Sea
Doxomysis quadrispinosa		Northwest Pacific
Erythrops abyssorum		Arctic
Erythrops africana		Mediterranean Sea
Erythrops alboranus		Mediterranean Sea.
Erythrops elegans		Northeast Atlantic and th
Erythrops erythrophthalma		Arctic, Northern Atlantic
Erythrops glacialis		Arctic
Erythrops minuta		Indo-West Pacific
Erythrops neapolitana		Mediterranean Sea
Erythrops peterdohrni		Mediterranean Sea
Erythrops serrata		Northeast Atlantic and th
Euchaetomera glyphidophthalmica		Eastern Atlantic, Indo Pa
Euchaetomera intermedia		Atlantic, Indo-Pacific an
Euchaetomera oculata		Northwest Pacific
Euchaetomera plebeja		East Central Pacific and
Euchaetomera richardi		Mediterranean Sea
Euchaetomera tenuis		Atlantic, Indo-Pacific an
Euchaetomera typica		Indo-Pacific, Atlantic an
Euchaetomera zurstrasseni		Antarctic Atlantic
Euchaetomeropsis merolepis		Eastern Atlantic, Indo-Pa
Gastrosaccus formosensis		Northwest Pacific
Gastrosaccus hibii		Northwest Pacific
Gastrosaccus kempi		Western Indian Ocean
Gastrosaccus mediterraneus		Mediterranean Sea.
Gastrosaccus pelagicus		Northwest Pacific
Gastrosaccus roscoffensis		Mediterranean Sea
Gastrosaccus sanctus		Western Indian Ocean, Eas
Gastrosaccus spinifer		Northeast Atlantic and th	2.1 TL
Haplostylus bacescui		Mediterranean Sea
Haplostylus bengalensis		Indo-West Pacific.
Haplostylus lobatus		Atlantic and the Mediterr
Haplostylus magnilobatus		Mediterranean Sea
Haplostylus normani		Eastern Atlantic, Western
Haplostylus parerythraeus		Western Indian Ocean
Haplostylus quadrispinosus		Western Indian Ocean
Harmelinella mariannae		Mediterranean Sea
Hemimysis abyssicola		Northeast Atlantic, Black
Hemimysis anomala	Bloody-red shrimp	Ponto-Caspian Region, Bla
Hemimysis lamornae		Atlantic, Mediterranean a
Hemimysis margalefi		Mediterranean Sea.
Hemimysis speluncola		Mediterranean Sea
Hemisiriella parva		Indo-Pacific.
Hemisiriella pulchra		Northwest Pacific
Heteromysis arianii		Mediterranean Sea
Heteromysis eideri		Mediterranean Sea
Heteromysis ekamako		Eastern Central Pacific
Heteromysis harpaxoides		Eastern Indian Ocean
Heteromysis lybiana		Mediterranean Sea
Heteromysis meenakshiae		Northwest Pacific
Heteromysis microps		Northeast Atlantic and th
Heteromysis muelleri		Mediterranean Sea
Heteromysis norvegica		Atlantic and the Mediterr
Heteromysis proxima		Western Indian Ocean
Heteromysis riedli		Mediterranean Sea
Heteromysis spinosa		Eastern Indian Ocean
Holmesimysis costata		Eastern Central Pacific
Hypererythrops richardi		Mediterranean Sea
Hypererythrops spinifera		Northwest Pacific
Hypererythrops zimmeri		Indo-Pacific and the Medi
Indomysis annandalei		Western Indian Ocean
Indomysis nybini		Western Indian Ocean
Kainomatomysis foxi		Western Indian Ocean and
Leptomysis buergii		Mediterranean Sea.
Leptomysis gracilis		Northeast Atlantic and th
Leptomysis heterophila		Northeast Atlantic and th
Leptomysis lingvura		Northeast Atlantic and th
Leptomysis mediterranea		Northeast Atlantic and th
Leptomysis megalops		Eastern Atlantic and the
Leptomysis posidoniae		Mediterranean Sea
Leptomysis truncata		Mediterranean Sea.
Limnomysis benedeni		Ponto-Caspian Region.
Lycomysis platycauda		Western Indian Ocean
Mesopodopsis aegyptia		Mediterranean Sea.
Mesopodopsis slabberi		Atlantic, Black Sea and t
Meterythrops robusta		Arctic
Michthyops arcticus		Arctic
Michthyops theeli		Arctic
Mysideis parva		Northeast Atlantic and th
Mysidella biscayensis		Northeast Atlantic and th
Mysidella typica		Northeast Atlantic and th
Mysidetes brachylepis		Antarctic Atlantic
Mysidetes dimorpha		Antarctic Atlantic
Mysidetes farrani		Northeast Atlantic and th
Mysidetes kerguelensis		Antarctic Atlantic
Mysidetes macrops		Antarctic Atlantic
Mysidetes microps		Antarctic Atlantic
Mysidetes posthon		Antarctic
Mysidopsis acuta		Antarctic Atlantic
Mysidopsis angusta		Northeast Atlantic and th
Mysidopsis didelphys		Atlantic and the Mediterr
Mysidopsis gibbosa		Atlantic and the Mediterr
Mysidopsis indica		Northwest Pacific
Mysidopsis kempi		Western Indian Ocean
Mysidopsis kenyana		Western Indian Ocean
Mysis australe		Antarctic Atlantic
Mysis litoralis		Arctic and Northwest Atla
Mysis mixta		Northern Atlantic
Mysis nordenskioldi		Circumpolar.
Mysis oculata		Northeast Atlantic and th
Mysis relicta		Northeast Atlantic and th
Neobirsteiniamysis inermis		Arctic and the Antarctic
Neomysis americana		Northern Atlantic.
Neomysis awatschensis		Arctic
Neomysis integer		Northeast Atlantic and th
Neomysis mercedis		Eastern Central Pacific
Neomysis rayii		Northeast Pacific
Palaumysis simonae		Indo-Pacific
Paraleptomysis apiops		Eastern Atlantic and the
Paraleptomysis banyulensis		Mediterranean Sea
Paramblyops rostrata		Northern Atlantic and the
Paramysis arenosa		Northeast Atlantic, Black
Paramysis festae		Mediterranean Sea
Paramysis helleri		Northeast Atlantic and th
Parapseudomma calloplura		Atlantic, Indo-Pacific an
Parerythrops lobiancoi		Mediterranean Sea
Parerythrops obesa		Northeast Atlantic, India
Parerythrops spectabilis		Northeast Atlantic and th
Praunus flexuosus	Bent mysid shrimp	Arctic and Northern Atlan
Praunus inermis		Northeast Atlantic
Praunus neglectus		Northeast Atlantic
Promysis orientalis		Northwest Pacific
Pseudanchialina inermis		Indo-Pacific.
Pseudanchialina pusilla		Northwest Pacific
Pseudomma affine		Arctic, Northeast Atlanti
Pseudomma armatum		Antarctic Atlantic
Pseudomma chattoni		Mediterranean Sea
Pseudomma kruppi		Northern Atlantic and the
Pseudomma nanum		Atlantic and the Mediterr
Pseudomma roseum		Northeast Atlantic and th
Pseudomma sarsii		Antarctic
Pseudomma truncatum		Arctic and Northeast Atla
Pseudomysis abyssi		Arctic
Pyroleptomysis peresi		Mediterranean Sea
Pyroleptomysis rubra		Western Indian Ocean and
Retromysis nura		Mediterranean Sea
Rhopalophthalmus mediterraneus		Mediterranean Sea
Schistomysis assimilis		Mediterranean Sea.	0.32 CL
Schistomysis kervillei		Northeast Atlantic
Schistomysis ornata		Northeast Atlantic
Schistomysis spiritus		Eastern Atlantic
Siriella adriatica		Mediterranean Sea.
Siriella aequiremis		Northwest Pacific
Siriella anomala		Indo-Pacific.
Siriella armata		Northeast Atlantic and th
Siriella bacescui		Northwest Pacific
Siriella brevicaudata		Western Indian Ocean
Siriella castellabatensis		Mediterranean Sea
Siriella clausi		Atlantic Ocean, Mediterra
Siriella gracilipes		Mediterranean Sea
Siriella gracilis		Northwest Pacific
Siriella hanseni		Western Indian Ocean
Siriella inornata		Western Indian Ocean
Siriella jaltensis		Atlantic, Black Sea and t
Siriella media		Western Pacific.
Siriella norvegica		Atlantic and the Mediterr
Siriella sinensis		Northwest Pacific
Siriella thompsonii		Atlantic, Indo-Pacific an
Siriella trispina		Northwest Pacific
Siriella vulgaris		Indo-West Pacific.
Stilomysis grandis		Northeast Atlantic

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