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Mysis relicta (opossum shrimp)

Wikipedia Abstract

Mysis relicta is a shrimp-like crustacean in the Mysida order, native to lakes of Northern Europe and to the brackish Baltic Sea.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Map Climate Land Use
Långasjönäs 363 Sweden  
Moälven 7897 Sweden  
Raslången Östra 452 Sweden  

Ecosystems

Prey / Diet

Cladophora glomerata (green algae)[1]
Cyclops bicuspidatus (cyclopoid copepod)[1]
Daphnia galeata (waterflea)[1]
Diaptomus sicilis (calanoid copepod)[1]
Leptodora kindtii (raptorial waterflea)[1]
Microcystis aeruginosa (blue-green algae)[1]
Peridinium umbonatum[1]
Pseudostaurosira brevistriata (diatom)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Amnicola limosus (mud amnicola)4
Dreissena bugensis (quagga mussel)4
Dreissena polymorpha (zebra mussel)4
Gasterosteus aculeatus (Alaskan stickleback)1
Oncorhynchus mykiss (redband trout)4

Predators

Alosa pseudoharengus (kyack)[1]
Coregonus hoyi (Bloater)[1]
Cottus cognatus (Anadyr sculpin)[1]
Myoxocephalus quadricornis (Alaska fourhorn sculpin)[1]
Osmerus eperlanus (European smelt)[2]
Osmerus mordax (Rainbow smelt)[1]
Perca flavescens (Yellow perch)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cyathocephalus truncatus <Unverified Name>[3]
Echinorhynchus bothniensis <Unverified Name>[3]
Echinorhynchus gadi[3]

Distribution

East Pacific; North America; Western Atlantic Ocean;

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Citations

Species recognized by , , ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Attributes / relations provided by 1NOAA, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory 2Feeding ecology of Coregonus albula and Osmerus eperlanus in the limnetic waters of Lake Mälaren, Sweden, Thomas G. Northcote and Johan Hammar, BOREAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH 11: 229–246 (2006) 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Protected Areas provided by Natura 2000, UK data: © Crown copyright and database right [2010] All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100017955
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