Heteromysis

Heteromysis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Mysida
Family:	Mysidae
Subfamily:	Heteromysinae
Tribe:	Heteromysini
Genus:	Heteromysis; S.I. Smith, 1873

Heteromysis (from Greek heteros meaning ‘different’, and mysis, a genus name Mysis) is a genus of marine mysid crustaceans (opossum shrimps) from the family Mysidae, associated with various shallow-water invertebrates. The name describes differentiation of its pereiopods (thoracic appendages) as possible adaptation to commensal life-style. Heteromysis is one of the largest mysid genera, containing more than 80 species. The genus is distributed globally, but predominantly in tropical and subtropical waters.[1]

Heteromysis Fosteri was named after South African filmmaker Craig Foster, after he had discovered eight new species of shrimp during a year of diving every single day while filming a common octopus. Three new species belong to Heteromysis and differ from species known at the time in colour, eye shape and spine patterns.[2]

References

Kouki Fukuoka (2005). "A new species of Heteromysis (Mysida, Mysidae) associated with sponges, from the Uraga Channel, central Japan, with notes on distribution and habitat within the genus Heteromysis". Crustaceana. 77 (11): 1253–1373. doi:10.1163/1568540043165976.
Allie, Mohammed (4 November 2018). "'How I became friends with an octopus'". BBC News. Retrieved 17 October 2020.

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[1] Kouki Fukuoka (2005). "A new species of Heteromysis (Mysida, Mysidae) associated with sponges, from the Uraga Channel, central Japan, with notes on distribution and habitat within the genus Heteromysis". Crustaceana. 77 (11): 1253–1373. doi:10.1163/1568540043165976.

[2] Allie, Mohammed (4 November 2018). "'How I became friends with an octopus'". BBC News. Retrieved 17 October 2020.