Invasion History
First Non-native North American Tidal Record:First Non-native West Coast Tidal Record:
First Non-native East/Gulf Coast Tidal Record:
General Invasion History:
None
North American Invasion History:
Description
None
Taxonomy
Taxonomic Tree
| Kingdom: | Animalia | |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea | |
| Class: | Malacostraca | |
| Subclass: | Eumalacostraca | |
| Superorder: | Peracarida | |
| Order: | Mysidacea | |
| Suborder: | Mysida | |
| Family: | Mysidae | |
| Genus: | Americamysis | |
| Species: | bahia |
Synonyms
Mysidopsis bahia (Molenock, 1969)
Potentially Misidentified Species
Americamysis almyra
None
Americamysis bigelowi
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Americamysis bigelowi
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Ecology
Food:
Consumers:
Competitors:
Trophic Status:
Habitats
Tolerances and Life History Parameters
| Maximum Temperature (ºC) | 34 | Field Data, Mexico (Price 1978) |
| Minimum Salinity (‰) | 2 | Field Data, MS, Eaton 1994 But rare below 15 ppt Stuck et al. 1999) |
| Maximum Salinity (‰) | 33 | Field data, Mexico (Escobar-Briones 1988). Probably occurs in higher salinities. |
| Broad Temperature Range | None | Warm temeprate-Subtropical |
| Broad Salinity Range | None | Oligohaline-Euhaline |
General Impacts
Regional Distribution Map
| Bioregion | Region Name | Year | Invasion Status | Population Status | Vectors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAR-I | Northern Yucatan, Gulf of Mexico, Florida Straits, to Middle Eastern Florida | 0 | Native | Established | |
| CAR-VII | Cape Hatteras to Mid-East Florida | 1993 | Crypogenic | Established | |
| NA-ET3 | Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras | 1986 | Crypogenic | Established | |
| M040 | Long Island Sound | 0 | Crypogenic | Established |
Occurrence Map
| OCC_ID | Author | Year | Date | Locality | Status | Latitude | Longitude |
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References
Eaton, Lawrence (1994) Preliminary survey of benthic macroinvertebrates of Currituck Sound, North Carolina, Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 110(3/4): 121-129Escobar-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
Lussier, Suzanne M., Kuhn, Anne, Chammas, Melissa J., Sewall, John (1988) Techniques for the laboratory culture of Mysidopsis species (Crustacea: Mysidacea), Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 7: 969-978
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; 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
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