Hemimysis anomala | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Mysida |
Family: | Mysidae |
Subfamily: | Mysinae |
Genus: | Hemimysis |
Species: | H. anomala
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Binomial name | |
Hemimysis anomala G. O. Sars, 1907
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The bloody-red mysid, Hemimysis anomala, is a shrimp-like crustacean in the Mysida order, native to the Ponto-Caspian region, which has been spreading across Europe since the 1950s.[1] In 2006, it was discovered to have invaded the North American Great Lakes.[2]