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mysid|ˈmaɪsɪd|
[f. mod.L. family name Mysidæ, f. the generic name Mysis (P. A. Latreille in C. S. Sonnini Buffon's Hist. Nat. Insectes & Crustacés (1802) III. 36): see -id3.]
A small shrimp-like crustacean of the family Mysidæ or the suborder Mysidacea; an opossum-shrimp. Also attrib.
1941Steinbeck & Ricketts Sea of Cortez xv. 152 That night we rigged a lamp..and hung it close down to the water... Pelagic isopods and mysids immediately swarmed to the illuminated circle. 1956A. Hardy Open Sea xiii. 254 Many ostracods and copepods, and at least one mysid, are known to flash brightly. 1961New Scientist 15 June 661/1 Small marine crustaceans, called mysids, would orientate themselves preferentially at right angles to the direction of polarization of vertical light. 1965B. E. Freeman tr. Vandel's Biospeleology ix. 117 The mysids are mainly marine Crustacea. 1969A. Wheeler Fishes Brit. Is. & N.-W. Europe 133/2 The ‘whitebait herring’, i.e. those in their first year,..eat crustacea, the copepod Calanus, the larvae of acorn barnacles, mysid shrimps, and the eggs and larvae of decapods and amphipods. |