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Mysidacea
Sign in to saveThe Mysidacea is a group of shrimp-like crustaceans in the superorder Peracarida, comprising the two extant orders Mysida and Lophogastrida and the prehistoric Pygocephalomorpha. Current data indicate that despite their external similarities, the three orders are not closely related, and the taxon Mysidacea is not used in modern taxonomy.
Species
opossum shrimps
CLASS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderMysidacea
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,016
- With media
- 308
- Collections
- YPM, CAS
- Recorded in
- British West Indies, United States, Turks And Caicos Islands, Seychelles, Philippines, Bermuda
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Peracarida
- Image
- Hemimysis anomala GLERL 4.jpg
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- taxon name
- Mysidacea
- topic's main category
- Category:Mysidacea
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Mysidacea is a group of shrimp-like crustaceans in the superorder Peracarida, comprising the two extant orders Mysida and Lophogastrida and the prehistoric Pygocephalomorpha. Current data indicate that despite their external similarities, the three orders are not closely related, and the taxon Mysidacea is not used in modern taxonomy.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mysidacea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.