Revision of the amphiamerican genus Mysidium Dana, 1852 (Crustacea: Mysida: Mysidae), with descriptions of two new species and the establishment of two new subgenera
Author
Wittmann, Karl J.
Author
Wirtz, Peter
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2019
2019-02-05
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Genus
Mysidium
Dana, 1852
Mysidia
Dana, 1850
: 130
(junior homonym, see Discussion).
Mysidium
Dana, 1852
: 638
, 653 (published in synonymy, see Discussion).
Themisto
–
Dana 1850
: 130
(quoted as homonym).
Macromysis
–
Dana 1852
: 638
, 652, 653 (subjective junior synonym, see Discussion); 1853: 1435; 1855: pl. 43, fig. 5. —
Czerniavsky 1887
: 85
(in synonymy). —
Tattersall & Tattersall 1951
: 376
(in synonymy).
Mysidium
–
Czerniavsky 1882
: 16
, 50 (in key); 1887: 85 (diagnosis, synonymy). —
W.M. Tattersall 1951
: 223
(synonymy, key to species). —
Brattegard 1969
: 89
(key to species). —
Mauchline 1980
: 36
(in key). —
Băcescu & Ortiz 1984
: 22
(key to species). —
Harrison & Bowman 1987
: 678
. —
Fukuoka 2006
: fig. 1. —
Petrescu & Wittmann 2009
: 64
. —
Ortiz et al. 2012
: 985
; 2017b: 72. —
Wittmann et al. 2014
: 339
. —
Ortiz & Lalana 2018
: 67
.
Mysidia
–
Czerniavsky 1887
: 85
(in synonymy). —
Gerstaecker & Ortmann 1901
: 665
(in citation). —
Zimmer 1915b
: 211
, 215; 1918: 24. —
Illig 1930
: 599
(in list).
Diamysis
–
Zimmer 1915a
: 214
(invalid subsequent assignment).
Type
species
Macromysis gracilis
Dana, 1852
, currently acknowledged in revised combination as
Mysidium gracil
e (
Dana, 1852
).
Diagnosis
Compiled with the reservation that not every one of the following characters is known in
Mysidium iliffei
Băcescu, 1991
(see Discussion):
Anisomysini
with eyes normal, eyestalks and cornea well developed. Antennular trunk terminally with the usual two flagella in both sexes, no accessory flagellum developed.Appendix masculina large, setose. Antennal scale lanceolate, without spines, but setose all around, with small terminal segment. Mandibles normal, palp three-segmented, cutting edges with well-developed pars incisiva, lacinia mobilis and pars molaris. Distal segment of maxillary palp with setae, but without denticles. Thoracopods essentially normal, endopods with 2- or three-segmented carpopropodus. All pleopods of females and pleopods 1–3, 5 of males are vestigial, setose, uniramous, unsegmented. Male pleopod 3 larger than pleopods 1–2, 5. Male pleopod 4 even longer, modified, with distinct sympod, unsegmented endopod and 3- or 4-segmented, slender exopod. Terminal two segments of exopod each bearing a large modified seta, remaining segments usually without setae, at most with one small seta on the basal segment. Uropods setose all around, without spines; exopods longer than endopods. Telson longer than broad, with entire or incised terminal margin; with spines and laminae on distal half.
Etymology
Derivation and gender of
Mysidia
and
Mysidium
not stated by
Dana (1850
,
1852
). Neutral gender of
Mysidium
implicitly fixed by
Czerniavsky (1887: 85)
upon proposing the revised combination
Mysidium gracile
(
Dana, 1852
)
.
Subgenera included
Mysidium
Dana, 1852
, nominotypical subgen., east and west coasts of America
Orientomysidium
Wittmann
subgen. nov.
, east coast of America
Occimysidium
Wittmann
subgen. nov.
, west coast of America
Species included
West Atlantic (32° N to 24° S):
Mysidium
(
Mysidium
)
gracile
(
Dana, 1852
)
Mysidium
(
Mysidium
)
integrum
W.M. Tattersall, 1951
Mysidium
(
Mysidium
)
cubanense
Băcescu & Ortiz, 1984
Mysidium
(
Mysidium
)
rubroculatum
Băcescu & Ortiz, 1984
Mysidium
(
Mysidium
)
triangulare
Wittmann
sp. nov.
Mysidium
(
Orientomysidium
)
columbiae
(Zimmer, 1915)
comb. nov.
Mysidium
(
Orientomysidium
)
antillarum
Wittmann
sp. nov.
Mysidium iliffei
Băcescu, 1991
East Pacific (21–25° N):
Mysidium
(
Mysidium
)
rickettsi
Harrison & Bowman, 1987
Mysidium
(
Occimysidium
)
pumae
Ortiz, Hendrickx & Winfield, 2017
comb. nov.