Mysidae
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{{Taxobox
| color = pink
| name = Mysidae
| image = Mysis2kils.jpg
| image_width = 230px
| image_caption = Mysid seen from below with the
feeding basket open, used for filter feeding
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Arthropoda
| subphylum = Crustacea
| classis = Malacostraca
| ordo = Mysidacea
| familia = Mysidae
| familia_authority = Haworth, 1825
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision =
many - see text
}}
In biology, the family Mysidae is one of the principal subgroups within the order Mysidacea or mysid shrimps.
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 & W. M. 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):
- Acanthomysis
- Amblyops
- Amblyopsoides
- Anchialina
- Anisomysis
- Arachnomysis
- Atlanterythrops
- Bathymysis
- Boreomysis
- Burrimysis
- Caesaromysis
- Calyptomma
- Chunomysis
- Dactylamblyops
- Dactylerythrops
- Diamysis
- Erythrops
- Euchaetomera
- Euchaetomeropsis
- Gastrosaccus
- Haplostylus
- Hemimysis
- Heteroerythrops
- Heteromysis
- Heteromysoides
- Hypererythrops
- Iimysis
- Kainomatomysis
- Katamysis
- Katerythrops
- Leptomysis
- Limnomysis
- Longithorax
- Mesopodopsis
- Metamblyops
- Meterythrops
- Michthyops
- Mysideis
- Mysidella
- Mysidetes
- Mysidopsis
- Mysis
- Neomysis
- Paraleptomysis
- Paramblyops
- Paramysis
- Parapseudomma
- Parerythrops
- Praunus
- Pseudomma
- Pseudomysis
- Pyroleptomysis
- Rhopalophthalmus
- Schistomysis
- Siriella
- Stilomysis
- Teraterythrops
- Thalassomysis