mysid

The proportion of zooplankton consumed in the mysid's diet increases with its body size.

The mysid has been associated with reduction of zooplankton biomass and biodiversity, while having an opposite effect on phytoplankton.

For example, the bathyal M. amblyops, the smallest mysid in the genus, has reduced eyes.

Filter basket of a mysid.

Gnathophausia ingens, the giant red mysid, is a species of lophogastrid crustacean with a pan-tropical distribution.

Recently however another, invasive mysid of European origin, Hemimysis anomala, has rapidly spread in the Great Lakes.

The bloody-red mysid favours hard bottom surfaces, including rocks and shells and avoids soft bottoms and areas of dense vegetation or high siltation.

In the female anemone mysid, some of the thoracic legs are modified to form a brood pouch in which the eggs are carried until they hatch.

Heteromysis actiniae, commonly known as the anemone mysid, is a species of opossum shrimp found in association with the sea anemone Bartholomea annulata.

The test was also compared to acute toxicity tests using Atlantic silverside, Menidia menidia, and the mysid, Mysidopsis bahia, and five metals.

The mysid's spread has been facilitated via its deliberate introduction into reservoirs on the Volga and Dnieper rivers in the 1950s and 1960s to serve as fish food.

The bloody-red mysid, Hemimysis anomala, is a shrimp-like crustacean in the Mysida order, native to the Ponto-Caspian region, which has been spreading across Europe since the 1950s.

Small meaty foods, such as mysid (sometimes referred to as mysis shrimp) or brine shrimp, along with flake food and algae wafers, spirulina, etc. are all happily accepted.

Acanthomysis microps is a species of mysid that was discovered during a study of the coastal waters of Maharashtra and South Gujarat that took place during 2008 and 2009.

This species of mysid is different from others in the same genus because of its "combination of broadly rounded rostrum, narrower eyes and the spination of the uropodal endopod and telson" .

The anemone mysid usually lives in groups of up to twenty individuals but occasionally there may be a hundred swimming up and down among the tentacles of the sea anemone, seldom going farther than a few centimetres (inches) away from it.

The anemone mysid is found living in association with the sea anemone Bartholomea annulata in the Bahamas, the Lesser Antilles, the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern coasts of Mexico and Panama down to a depth of a few metres (yards).