Distribution North European lakes in the Baltic and White Sea basins; Northern Baltic Sea
Distribution North European lakes in the Baltic and White Sea basins; Northern Baltic Sea [details]
Taxonomy Until 2005, the concept of Mysis relicta was broader (circumpolar), encompassing also M. salemaai, M. segerstralei, M....
Taxonomy Until 2005, the concept of Mysis relicta was broader (circumpolar), encompassing also M. salemaai, M. segerstralei, M. diluviana. [details]
Mees, J.; Meland, K.; Väinölä, R. (Eds) (2012 onwards). World List of Lophogastrida, Stygiomysida and Mysida. Mysis relicta Lovén, 1862. Accessed through: Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2025) Canadian Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/CaRMS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=120120 on 2025-05-30
Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2025). Canadian Register of Marine Species. Mysis relicta Lovén, 1862. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/CaRMS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=120120 on 2025-05-30
original descriptionLovén, S. L. (1862). Om nagra i Vettern och Venern funna Crustaceer. Öfvers. K. Vetensk. Akad. Förhandl., Stockholm. 1861: 285-314.[details]
taxonomy sourceCzerniavsky, V. (1882). Monographia Mysidarum inprimis Imperii Rossici. Fasc. 1, 2. Trudy Sankt-Peterburgskago Obshchestvo Estestvoispytatelei (Travaux de la Société des Naturalistes de St.-Pétersbourg). 12: 1-170; 13: 1-85, 4 pls., available online athttps://play.google.com/books/reader?id=BXlBAQAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PP6[details]
taxonomy sourceSars, G. O. (1879). Carcinologiske Bidrag til Norges fauna. I. Monographi over de ved Norges Kyster forekommende Mysider. Pt. 3. Christiania, A.W. Brøgger. pp. 1-131, 42 pls. (look up in IMIS) [details]
taxonomy sourceSars, G. O. (1867). Histoire naturelle des Crustacés d´eau douce de Norvège. I. Les Malacostracés. Chr. Johnsen, Christiania. iii 146 p., 10 pl., available online athttps://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8848[details]
taxonomy sourceHarms, J. (1993). Check list of species (algae, invertebrates and vertebrates) found in the vicinity of the island of Helgoland (North Sea, German Bight): a review of recent records. Helgoländer Meeresunters. 47: 1-34. [p. 25, tab. 3: Gastrosaccus spinifer, Mysis relicta, Praunus inermis, Schistomysis kervillei, Schistomysis spiritus. (look up in IMIS) [details]
taxonomy sourceJarzynsky. (1870). Praem. cat. Crustacea decap. maris albi et litt. Murman Trudy Soc. Nat. Petropol. 1, fasc. 2, p. 317.[details]
taxonomy sourceLaubitz; D. R. (1986). Synopsis speciorum. Crustacea: Euphausiacea et Mysidacea. Bibliogr. Invertebr. Aquat. Can. 6: 1-28, 51-67.[details]
basis of recordHögbom, A. G. (1917). Über die arktischen Elemente in der Aralokaspischenfauna, ein tiergeographisches Problem. Bull. Geol. Inst. Univ. Uppsala. 14: 241-260, 1 pl.[details]
additional sourceEkman, S. (1915). Die Bodenfauna des Vättern, qualitativ und quantitativ untersucht. [The soil fauna of Lake Vättern, investigated qualitatively and quantitatively.]. Internationale Revue der Gesamten Hydrobiologie und Hydrographie. 7:146-204, 275-425, figs. 1-6, tabs. 7-14. (Copepoda: 303-307).[details]
additional sourceEkman, S. (1916). 3. Systematische und tiergeographische Bemerkungen über einige glazialmarine Relicte des Kaspischen Meeres. [3. Systematic and zoogeographical remarks on some glacial-marine relics of the Caspian Sea.]. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 47(9):258-269, figs. 1-2. (11-vi-1916).[details]
additional sourceGrossnickle, N.E. & T.F. Naesje. (1993). Predation by the glacial relicts Mysis relicta and Heterocope appendiculata in Norwegian lakes. Verhandlungen der Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 25(1):470-473.[details] Available for editors
additional sourceKessler, K. (1868). Materialy dlya poznaniya Onezhskago ozera i Obonezhskago kraia preimushestvenno v zoologicheskom otnoshenii. Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Onega Sees mit Umgegend, insbesondere in zoologischer Beziehung. [Contributions to the knowledge of Lake Onega and its surroundings, particularly in zoological terms.]. Prilozhenie k Trudam pervago svezda Russkikh Estestvoispytatelei, Sanktpeterburg (Supplement to works of the first congress of Russian Naturalists in St. Petersburgh). 1-143, pls. 1-8, 1 map., available online athttp://Materialy dlia poznaiia onezhskago ozera i obonezhskago kraia preimushestvenno v zoologicheskom otnoshenii[details]
additional sourceVäinölä, R. & H. Rockas. (1990). New distributional data on 'glacial relict' crustaceans. Annales Zoologici Fennici. 27(3):215-220.[details] Available for editors
additional sourceVäinölä, R. (1992). The two Baltic species of the Mysis relicta species group. In: Köhn, J., M.B. Jones, & A. Moffat (eds.), Taxonomy, Biology and Ecology of (Baltic) Mysids: Mysidacea: Crustacea): International Expert Conference, September 1991, Hiddensee, Germany. Rostock University. 33-37.[details] Available for editors
additional sourceVäinölä, R. (1995). Origin and recent endemic divergence of a Caspian Mysis species flock with affinities to the "glacial relict" crustaceans in boreal lakes. Evolution. 49(6): 1215-1223.[details] Available for editors
additional sourceVäinölä, R.; Audzijonyte, A.; Riddoch, B. J. (2002). Morphometric discrimination among four species of the Mysis relicta group. Archiv für Hydrobiologie. 155 (3): 493-515.[details] Available for editors
additional sourceVäinölä, R.; Riddoch, B. J.; Ward, R. D.; Jones, R. I. (1994). Genetic zoogeography of the Mysis relicta species group (Crustacea: Mysidacea) in northern Europe and North America. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 51: 1490-1505.[details] Available for editors
additional sourceVäinölä, R.; Valtonen, E. T.; Gibson, D. I. (1994). Molecular systematics in the acanthocephalan genus Echinorhynchus (sensu lato) in northern Europe. Parasitology. 108: 105-114. note: parasite: Echinorhynchus bothniensis [details] Available for editors
additional sourceHolmquist, C. (1957). On aberrant specimens of Praunus flexuosus and some other opossum shrimps. Acta borealia. Ser A. 13: 1-29.[details] Available for editors
additional sourceKöHN, J.; JONES, M.B. (1991). Taxonomy, Biology and Ecology of (Baltic) Mysidacea International Expert Conference, Hiddensee, Germany[details] Available for editors
additional sourceLABAT, R.Contribution à l'étude de l'écologie, l'éthologie et la sexualité chez quelques Mysidacés Faculté des sciences de l'université de toulouse[details] Available for editors
additional sourceViherluoto, M.; Kuosa, H.; Flinkman, J.; Viitasalo, M. (2000). Food utilisation of pelagic mysids, Mysis mixta and M. relicta , during their growing season in the northern Baltic Sea. Marine Biology. 136(3): 553-559., available online athttps://doi.org/10.1007/s002270050715[details] Available for editors
additional sourceVainola, R.; Vainio, J. K. (1998). Distributions, life cycles and hybridization of two Mysis relicta group species (Crustacea: Mysida) in the northern Baltic Sea and lake Baven. Hydrobiologia. 368: 137-148.[details] Available for editors
additional sourceVäinölä, R. (1994). Molecular systematics and zoogeography of the "Glacial Relict" element Academic dissertation[details] Available for editors
additional sourceViherluoto, M.; Viitasalo, M. (2001). Effect of light on the feeding rates of pelagic and littoral mysid shrimps: a trade-off between feeding success and predation avoidance. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 261(2): 237-244., available online athttps://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-0981(01)00277-5[details] Available for editors
additional sourceDaneliya, M. E.; Wittmann, K. J. (2021). Conservation of Continental Mysida and Stygiomysida. In: Rogers C.D; Kawai, T. (eds), Recent Advances in Freshwater Crustacean Biodiversity and Conservation (Crustacean Issues Vol. 20). CRC Press. p. 307-346., available online athttps://doi.org/10.1201/9781003139560-10[details] Available for editors
additional sourceTattersall, O.S. (1954). Shallow-water Mysidacea from the St. Lawrence estuary, Eastern Canada. The Canadian Field-naturalist 68(4): 143-154[details] Available for editors
additional sourceAriani, A.P.; Wittmann, K.J. (2000). Interbreeding versus morphological and ecological differentiation in Mediterranean Diamysis (Crustacea, Mysidacea), with description of four new taxa. Hydrobiologia. 441: 185-236.[details] Available for editors
additional sourceFürst, M. 1967. Successful introductions of glacial relicts as argument in a discussion of postglacial history.-- Report (Sotvattenslaboratoriet (Sweden)) = Report - Institute of Freshwater Research (Drottningholm) 47: 113-117.[details] Available for editors
additional sourceGrossnickle, N.E. 1991. Comparative feeding study of the opossum shrimp, Mysis relicta, in Trout Lake, Wisconsin, U.S.A., Lake Paajarvi, Finland and Lake Jonsvatn, Norway.-- Internationale Vereinigung fuer Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie Verhandlungen 24 (5): 2864-2868.[details]
additional sourceGrossnickle, N.E.; & Beeton, A.M. (1979). Antennal scale length as a measure of relative size in the opossum shrimp, Mysis relicta Loven. Crustaceana. 36 (2): 141-146.[details] Available for editors
additional sourceHolmquist, C. 1955. Die "Mysis relicta" aus dem Mittelmeergebiet (=Diamysis bahirensis [G.O. Sars] 1877 and Paramysis helleri [G.O. Sars] 1877).-- Zoologischer Anzeiger 154: 277-288.[details] Available for editors
additional sourceKünne, C. 1939. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Mysideenfauna der südlichen Nordsee.-- Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 72: 329-358.[details] Available for editors
additional sourceNylund, A. 1981. The heart ultrastructure of Praunus flexuosus (Müller) and Mysis relicta (Lovén) (Crustacea, Mysidacea).-- Journal of Crustacean Biology: A Quarterly of the Crustacean Society for the Publication of Research on Any Aspect of the Biology of Crustacea 1 (4): 558-566.[details] Available for editors
additional sourceThienemann, A. (1928). Die Reliktenkrebse Mysis relicta, Pontoporeia affinis, Pallasea quadrispinosa und die von ihnen bewohnten norddeutschen Seen. Arch. Hydrobiol. Plankton. 19: 521-582.[details]
additional sourceThienemann, A. (1928). Mysis relicta in sauerstoffarmem Tiefenwasser der Ostsee und das Problem der Atmung im Salzwasser und Süsswasser. Zool. Jb., Zool. 45: 371-384.[details]
additional sourceSchlacher, T. A.; Wittmann, K. J.; Ariani, A. P. (1992). Comparative morphology and actuopalaeontology of mysid statoliths (Crustacea, Mysidacea). Zoomorphology. 112: 67-79.[details] Available for editors
additional sourceElofsson, R. (1966). The nauplius eye and frontal organs of the non-Malacostraca (Crustacea). Sarsia. 25(1):1-128, figs. 1-71. (25-viii-1966)., available online athttps://doi.org/10.1080/00364827.1966.10409568[details]
additional sourceWittmann K.J. (1984). Ecophysiology of marsupial development and reproduction in Mysidacea (Crustacea). Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review, 22, 393-428.[details] Available for editors
additional sourceSars, G.O. (1863). Beretning om en i Sommeren 1862 foretagen zoologisk Reise i Christianias og Trondhjems Stifter. [Report on a zoological trip undertaken in the summer of 1862 in Christiania and Trondhjem Stifter.]. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne. 12: 193-252. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional sourceGordan, J. (1957). A bibliography of the order Mysidacea. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 112 (4): 281-393.[details] Available for editors
additional sourceMüller, H. G. (1993). World catalogue and bibliography of the recent Mysidacea. 238p.[details] Available for editors
additional sourceMauchline, J.; Murano, M. (1977). World list of the Mysidacea, Crustacea. J. Tokyo Univ. Fish. 64 (1): 39-88. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional sourceSamter, M.; Weltner, W. (1900). Mysis, Pallasiella und Pontoporeia in einem Binnensee Norddeutschlands. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 23 (628): 638-654.[details]
additional sourceSamter, M.; Weltner, W. (1904). Biologische Eigentümlichkeiten der Mysis relicta, Pallasiella quadrispinosa und Pontoporeia affinis erklärt aus ihrer eiszeitlichen Entstehung. Zool. Anz. 27: 676-694.[details]
additional sourceSamter, M. (1905). Die geographische Verbreitung von Mysis relicta, Pallasiella quadrispinosa, Pontoporeia affinis in Deutschland als Erklärungsversuch ihrer Herkunft. Abh. K.Preuss. Akad.Wiss. 1905(5):1-34,6 pls.[details]
redescriptionAudzijonyte, A.; Väinölä, R. (2005). Diversity and distributions of circumpolar fresh- and brackish-water Mysis (Crustacea: Mysida): descriptions of M. relicta Lovén, 1862, M. salemaai n.sp., M. segerstralei n.sp. and M. diluviana n.sp., based on molecular and morphological characters. Hydrobiologia. 544: 88-141.[details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Germany
Gulf of Bothnia
Gulf of Finland
Lithuania
Norway
Sweden
(no group)
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Depth range shallow water - 200 m [details] Distribution North European lakes in the Baltic and White Sea basins; Northern Baltic Sea [details] Taxonomy Until 2005, the concept of Mysis relicta was broader (circumpolar), encompassing also M. salemaai, M. segerstralei, M. diluviana. [details]
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