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my·sid

 (mī′sĭd)
n.
Any of various small, shrimplike, chiefly marine crustaceans of the order Mysida, the females of which carry their eggs in a pouch beneath the thorax. Also called opossum shrimp.
[From New Latin Mysis, Mysid-, type genus, from Greek musis, a closing, from mūein, to close the lips or eyes.]
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mysid

(ˈmaɪsɪd)
n
(Animals) another name for the opossum shrimp
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Observations on the swimming activity of two bathypelagic mysid species maintained at high hydrostatic pressures.
Comparative Oxygen Consumption of Gastropod Holobionts from Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents in the Indian Ocean
The toxicity of chromium, nickel, and zinc: effects of salinity and temperature, and the osmoregulatory consequences in the mysid Praunus flexuosos.
Evaluation of potential confounding factors in sediment toxicity tests with Hyalella azteca (Saussure, 1858)
The planktonic/infective copepodid attaches to the mysid body surface, and finally lodges itself within the host marsupium involving either no or a few molts.
Planktonic Phases in Symbiotic Copepods: a Review
In contrast, juvenile weakfish were present in greater density in the shore zone at night and stomach content analysis of these individuals (Torre and Targett, 2017) showed that they were feeding almost exclusively on mysid shrimp (Neomysis americana).
Diel differences in abundance and diversity of fish species and blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) in the sandy beach shore zone of lower Delaware Bay
Annotation added by author to NASA image by Mysid (2008).
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Bio-invasions and bio-fixes: Mysis Shrimp introductions in the twentieth century
Jones, "Disruption of swimming in the hyperbenthic mysid Neomysis integer (Peracarida: Mysidacea) by the organophosphate pesticide chlorpyrifos," Aquatic Toxicology, vol.
The Role of AChE in Swimming Behavior of Daphnia magna: Correlation Analysis of Both Parameters Affected by Deltamethrin and Methomyl Exposure
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Toxicity of water-soluble fractions of four fuels for Metamysidopsis insularis, an indigenous tropical mysid species.
Acute toxicity of water soluble fraction of crude oil to the early life stages of the African catfish (Clarias gariepinus)
Effects of silt loading on the feeding and mortality of the mysid Mesopodopsis africana in the St Lucia Estuary, South Africa.
Observations on the bloom-forming jellyfish Crambionella stuhlmanni (Chun, 1896) in the St Lucia Estuary, South Africa
Individuals were housed in a flow-through tank system and fed mysid shrimps and algae every few days.
Aquatic and terrestrial locomotion of the rock Prickleback, Xiphister mucosus (Cottiformes: Zoarcoideh Stichaeidae)
On a new genus and species of mysid from Southern Louisiana.
Ecological observations on two mysis species, Taphromysis Louisianae Banner and T. Bowmani Bacescu from the upper reaches Of Davis Bayou, Jackson County, Mississippi

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