Tags: Crustacean.
Mysida is an order of small shrimp-like crustaceans in the malacostracan superorder Peracarida. Their common name opossum shrimps stems from the presence of a brood pouch or marsupium in females. The fact that the larvae are reared in this pouch and are not free-swimming characterises the order. The mysid’s head bears a pair of stalked eyes and two pairs of antennae.
