Diversity of coastal mysids from Pulau Tinggi, Sultan Iskandar Marine Park, Malaysia

Abstract

A checklist of the order Mysida from Pulau Tinggi, Sultan Iskandar Marine Park, Johor, Malaysia is presented. With the aid of an epibenthic sledge, a total number of 9,239 mysids were collected during years 2012-2013 from two fixed stations of seagrass bed in Pulau Tinggi. So far there are 13 species, 10 genera, and 6 subfamilies of mysids. Of these, one species Siriella media Hansen, 1910 is recorded as new to Pulau Tinggi. The checklist presented herein includes the reference to each species' original description, type locality, information on geographical distribution.

Idiomysis bumbumiensis sp. nov., a new mysid species (Mysida, Mysidae, Anisomysini) from Southeast Asia

“…It is also the third species of the tribe Anisomysini found in Malaysian waters besides Anisomysis (Anisomysis) aikawai Ii, 1964 and A. (Paranisomysis) ohtsukai Murano, 1994(Moriya 2016Tan and Azman 2018). The genus Idiomysis can be easily classified into two groups, based on the antennal scale; (i) entire or (ii) 2 segments.…”

“…To date, only two species, namely Anisomysis (Anisomysis) aikawai Ii, 1964 and A. (Paranisomysis) ohtsukai Murano, 1994, have been identified from Malaysian waters (Gan et al 2010;Tan et al 2014;Moriya 2016;Tan and Azman 2018) and there was no record of any mysid of the genus Idiomysis.…”