Americamysis almyra

Invasion History

First Non-native North American Tidal Record:
First Non-native West Coast Tidal Record:
First Non-native East/Gulf Coast Tidal Record:

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General Invasion History:

None

North American Invasion History:

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Description

None

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Taxonomy

Ecology

Food:

Phytoplankton; Zooplankton

Trophic Status:

Omnivore

Omni

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Habitats

General Habitat	Unstructured Bottom	None
General Habitat	Oyster Reef	None
Salinity Range	Limnetic	0-0.5 PSU
Salinity Range	Oligohaline	0.5-5 PSU
Salinity Range	Mesohaline	5-18 PSU
Salinity Range	Polyhaline	18-30 PSU
Salinity Range	Euhaline	30-40 PSU
Tidal Range	Subtidal	None
Vertical Habitat	Epibenthic	None
Vertical Habitat	Planktonic	None

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Tolerances and Life History Parameters

Maximum Temperature (ºC)	34	Field data, Mexico (Escobar-Briones and Soto 1988)
Minimum Salinity (‰)	0	Field data (Price and Vodopich 1979)
Maximum Salinity (‰)	55	Field data (Price and Vodopich 1979)
Minimum pH	6.9	Experimental (Reitsema and Neff 1980)
Maximum pH	9	Experimental (Reitsema and Neff 1980)
Minimum Reproductive Temperature	20	Experimental (Reitsema and Neff 1980)
Maximum Reproductive Temperature	30	Highest tested, experimental (Reitsema and Neff 1980)
Maximum Reproductive Salinity	30	Highest tested, experimental (Reitsema and Neff 1980)
Minimum Reproductive Dissolved Oxygen	2	Experimental (Reitsema and Neff 1980)
Broad Temperature Range	None	Warm temeperate-subtropical
Broad Salinity Range	None	Oligohaline-Euhaline

General Impacts

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References

Bowman, Thomas E. (1968) Mysidopsis almyra, a new estuarine mysid crustacean from Lousiana and Florida, Tulane Studies in Zoology 12: 15-18

Eaton, Lawrence (1994) Preliminary survey of benthic macroinvertebrates of Currituck Sound, North Carolina, Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 110(3/4): 121-129

Escobar-Briones, Elva; Soto, Luis A. (1988) Mysidacea from Terminos lagoon, southern Gulf of Mexico, and description of a new species of Taphromysis, Journal of Crustacean Biology 8(4): 639-655

Grabe, Stephen A. (1981) Occurence of Mysidopsis almyra Bowman, 1964 (Mysidacea) in the Patapsco River estuary (Upper Chesapeake Bay), Maryland, U.S.A., Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 94(3): 863-865

Modlin, Richard F. (1982) Contributions to the ecology of the mysid crustaceans in the shallow waters of Dauphin Island, Alabama, Northeast Gulf Science 5(2): 45-49

Price, W. Wayne (1978) Occurrence of Mysdiopsis almyra Bowman, M. bahia Molenock andBowmaniella brasiliensis Bacescu (Crustacea, Mysidacea) from the eastern coast of Mexico., Gulf Research Reports 6(2): 173-175

Price, W. Wayne (1995) The taxonomy and distribution of Mysidacea in Tampa Bay, Florida, Florida Scientist 58(2): 247

Price, W. Wayne; Heard, Richard W.; Stuck, Lidia (1994) Observations on the genus Mysidopsis sars 1864, with the desgnation of a new genus, Americamysis, and the descriptions of Americamysis alleni and A. stucki (Peracarida: Mysidacea/Mysidae) from the Gulf of Mexico., Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 107(4): 680-698

Price, W. Wayne; Vodopich, Darrell S. (1979) Occurrence of Mysidopsis almyra (Mysidacea; Mysidae) on the east Coast of Florida, U. S. A., Crustaceana 36(2): 194-196

Reitsema, Lawrence A.; Neff, Jerry M. (1980) A recirculating system for the laboratory culture of Mysidopsis almyra (Crustacea; Pericaridea), Estuaries 3(4): 321-323

Stuck, Kenneth C.; Perry, Harriet M.; Heard, Richard W. (1979) Annotated key to the Mysidacea of the North Central Gulf of Mexico, Gulf Research Reports 6(3): 225-238

Stuck, Kenneth C.; Perry, Harriet M.; Heard, Richard W. (1979) Records and range extensions of Mysidaceae from coastal and shelf waters of the eastern Gulf of Mexico, Gulf Research Reports 6(3): 249-248

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