单词 | mysis shrimp |
释义 | > as lemmasmysis shrimp A genus of malacostracan crustaceans, originally comprising all the opossum shrimps (family Mysidae: see mysid n. and adj.), but now restricted to a smaller number of related marine and freshwater species. Also (usually in form mysis): a crustacean of this genus (also mysis shrimp). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Schizopoda > family Mysidae or genus Mysis Mysis1828 1828 J. V. Thompson Zool. Res. 16 The Mysis, or Opossum Shrimp, a Genus instituted by Latreille, appears to have been hitherto noticed by very few Naturalists. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 80/2 The second pair of antennæ are inserted below the preceding, as in Mysis. 1870 Amer. Naturalist 4 404 We obtained alive..a Mysis and two species of Gammarus. 1891 Daily News 29 Jan. 5/2 The shrimp-like mysis. 1946 Nature 13 July 71/1 The following arthropods were apparently unaffected: Chironomids, Mysis, Sphæroma and Carcinus. 1971 Oxf. Bk. Invertebr. 132/2 By day, Mysis lives in deep water, rising to the surface at night. 1992 Pract. Fishkeeping Mar. 64/1 Many ‘impossible’ species are specialist feeders so why do some fish keepers still knowingly buy them and hope they will adapt and thrive on mysis shrimp. < as lemmas |
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