Neomysis integer

Tags: Crustacean.

Neomysis integer is a species of opossum shrimp found in shallow marine bays and estuaries of Europe with a transparent greenish or brownish body and a large cephalothorax. It is found in very shallow water in both high and low-salinity habitats. It is a filter feeder and the female broods her eggs in a brood pouch beneath her cephalothorax.

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binomial authority

William Elford Leach

class

Malacostraca

family

Mysidae

genus

Neomysis

kingdom

Animal

order

Mysida

phylum

Arthropod, Crustacean

synonym

*Mysis integer( (Leach 1814), *Mysis scoticus( J.V. Thompson 1828), *Mysis vulgaris( J.V. Thompson 1828), *Neomysis vulgaris( (J.V. Thompson 1828), *Praunus integer( Leach 1814)