Wittmann & Ariani 1986
Wittmann & Ariani 1986
WITTMANN, K. J. & A. P. ARIANI, 1986: Importance of statoliths for studies of mysid ecology, palaeontology, and systematics. Abstract. Workshop of the Mysid Research Group, Stockholm. p. 1.
Statocysts in the endopods of uropods are well known among differential diagnostic characters of the family Mysidae. As well, it is known since a long time that mysid statoliths are endogenous and essentially composed of fluorite. This is a peculiar characteristic in known biomineralization processes. However, so long major research has been focused on physiology of the static organ. Composition of statoliths was studied in only very few species so that no ecological and systematic implications were investigated Five years ago our group has started a large scale study of statolith composition, structure, development, and their ecological, paleontological, and taxonomic implications. Statoliths are mostly mineralized with fluorite, less frequently with vaterite (in a number of Mysini taxa). Again less frequently they may be not mineralized (in Boreomysinae and Rhopalophthalminae).
statolithology; ecology; palaeontology; mysid statoliths; vaterite; fluorite; non-mineralic statoliths
Boreomysinae; Diamysis; Diamysis bahirensis; Diamysis pengoi; Limnomysis; Mysidacea; Mysidae; Mysini; Paramysis; Paramysis arenosa; Pyroleptomysis; Rhopalophthalminae; Schistomysis spiritus