order Mysidacea

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Related to order Mysidacea: opossum shrimp, Mysidae, Cumacea, Euphausiacea, Euphausiids

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order Mysidacea - opossum shrimp

animal order - the order of animals

Malacostraca, subclass Malacostraca - largest subclass of Crustacea including most of the well-known marine, freshwater, and terrestrial crustaceans: crabs; lobsters; shrimps; sow bugs; beach flies

family Mysidae, Mysidae - small shrimp-like crustaceans

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The most important taxa for both species were dipterans (Chironomidae) and Neomysis mercedes (Order Mysidacea, opossum shrimps).

FALL CHINOOK SALMON (ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA), SAND ROLLER (PERCOPSIS TRANSMONTANA), AND SMALLMOUTH BASS (MICROPTERUS DOLOMIEU) INTERACTIONS IN A SNAKE RIVER RESERVOIR: A TALE OF THREE SPECIES

0.54 Class Ostracada 3.74 Class Cirripedia 1.87 Class Malacostraca 9.89 Order Cumacea 0.27 Order Mysidacea -- Order Isopoda - suborder Valiferia 1.07 Order Amphipoda: 8.56 Family Gammaridae 4.54 Family Caprellidae -- Family Corophidae 0.27 Family Stenothoidae 0.80 Unidentified amphipoda 2.94 Order Decapoda - infraorder Anomura -- Phylum Annelida: * Class Polychaeta 0.53 Family Phyllodocida -- Family Nereididae - Nereis sp.

FEEDING HABITS OF YOUNG-OF-THE-YEAR WINTER FLOUNDER, PSEUDOPLEURONECTES AMERICANUS, IN THE HUDSON RIVER ESTUARY, U.S.A

Order Mysidacea. The long-frozen bloods from the two species of Gnathophausia contained unusually high levels of material that was not positive for Cu, and a low concentration of Hc.

Subunit composition and O2 binding of the crustacean hemocyanins: interspecific relationships