Mysidae
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| In biology, the family Mysidae is one of the principal subgroups within the order Mysidacea or mysid shrimps. Mysid seen from below with the feeding basket open, used for filter feeding)
The members of Mysidae are sometimes called fairy shrimps. Their characteristic feature is the presence of a statocyst on the endopod of the uropod.
The family is a large one, and seven subfamilies are recognised: Boreomysinae Holt & Tattersall, 1905a Siriellinae Norman, 1892 Rhopalophthalminae Hansen 1910 Gastrosaccinae Norman, 1892 Mysinae Hansen, 1910 Mysidellinae Hansen 1910 It includes the following 58 genera (this may not be a complete list) AcanthomysisAmblyopsAmblyopsoidesAnchialinaAnisomysisArachnomysisAtlanterythropsBathymysisBoreomysisBurrimysisCaesaromysisCalyptommaChunomysisDactylamblyopsDactylerythropsDiamysisErythropsEuchaetomeraEuchaetomeropsisGastrosaccusHaplostylusHemimysisHeteroerythropsHeteromysisHeteromysoidesHypererythropsIimysisKainomatomysisKatamysisKaterythropsLeptomysisLimnomysisLongithoraxMesopodopsisMetamblyopsMeterythropsMichthyopsMysideisMysidellaMysidetesMysidopsisMysisNeomysisParaleptomysisParamblyopsParamysisParapseudommaParerythropsPraunusPseudommaPseudomysisPyroleptomysisRhopalophthalmusSchistomysisSiriellaStilomysisTeraterythropsThalassomysis
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