Mysidopsis kempi W.M. Tattersall, 1922

Yolanda, Rofiza, Ambarwati, Reni, Rahayu, Dwi Anggorowati, Budijastuti, Widowati, Fitrihidajati, Herlina, Kuntjoro, Sunu, Rachmadiarti, Fida & Purnomo, Tarzan, 2023, An annotated checklist of the species of Lopogastrida and Mysida (Crustacea Peracarida) from Thailand and its adjacent waters, Zootaxa 5244 (3), pp. 201-232 : 211-212

Mysidopsis kempi W.M. Tattersall, 1922

Type locality. Gulf of Manaar (W.M. Tattersall 1922) .

Record from Thailand. South-eastern Andaman Sea, next to Phuket Island ( Fukuoka & Murano 2002).

Habitat and depth range. Marine, depth: 19–56 m ( Fukuoka & Murano 2002).

Distribution. This species is distributed from the Gulf of Manaar, India (W.M. Tattersall 1922), Indonesia ( Ii 1964), South China Sea ( Liu & Wang 1986) to the Andaman Sea ( Fukuoka & Murano 2002).

Remarks. The characteristics of M. kempi are very close to M. eremita , but, both of them can be distinguished as follows; in M. kempi (1) nine slender spines near statocyst present, (2) antennal scale short, broad and no distal suture, (3) telson lingulate, long and narrow, apex rounded, lateral margins with apex armed on each side with about 20 regular evenly spaced small spines, while in M. eremita (1) ten small spines near statocyst, evenly graduated, (2) antennal scale lanceolate, apex rounded, distal suture present, (3) telson lingulate, lateral margins armed with ten or eleven small spines, apex with four pairs of very long, graduated spines, the innermost longest (O.S. Tattersall 1969).