Tags: Crustacean.
Neomysis (from the Greek affix neo- new and the genus name Mysis) is a genus of opossum shrimp (mysid crustacean) from the family Mysidae distributed in the coastal zone of temperate seas of the Northern Hemisphere and South America. Several species particularly from the West Pacific are also found in fresh and brackish waters. The genus contains the following 18 species: