Mysidae

Mysidae
Mysid seen from below with the feeding basket open, used for filter feeding.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Mysidacea
Family:	Mysidae Haworth, 1825
Genera
See text.

In biology, the large family Mysidae is one of the principal subgroups within the order Mysidacea or mysid shrimps. Six sub-families are recognised.

The members of Mysidae are sometimes called fairy shrimps. Their characteristic feature is the presence of a statocyst on the endopod of the uropod.

Sub-family list

• Boreomysinae Holt & W. M. Tattersall, 1905a
• Siriellinae Norman, 1892
• Rhopalophthalminae Hansen, 1910
• Gastrosaccinae Norman, 1892
• Mysinae Hansen, 1910
• Mysidellinae Hansen, 1910

Genera 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
• Tenagomysis
• Teraterythrops
• Thalassomysis

This may not be a complete list.