Mysidacea from shallow water in the Bahamas and Southern Florida. Part 1

The following new taxa are described and figured: Amathimysis gibba gen. et sp. nov. of the tribe Erythropini; Mysidopsis mathewsoni sp. nov., M. eclipes sp. nov., M. brattstroemi sp. nov., M. robustispina sp. nov., Dioptromysis spinosa sp. nov., D. paucispinosa sp. nov. of the tribe Leptomysini; Parvimysis bahamensis gen. et sp. nov. of uncertain systematic position within the sub-family Mysinae; and Heteromysis nouveli sp. nov. and H. floridensis sp. nov. of the tribe Heteromysini. The following species: Mysidopsis mortenseni W. M. Tattersall, M. furca Bowman, M. almyra Bowman, M. bigelowi W. M. Tattersall, Brasilomysis castroi Băcescu, Mysidium gracile (Dana), M. integrum W. M. Tattersall, M. columbiae (Zimmer), Taphromysis bowmani Băcescu, Heteromysis formosa S. I. Smith and H. actiniae Clarke are recorded, and easily observed characters that can be used for their identification are described and figured. Keys for the identification of the known species of Dioptromysis and Mysidium are given, together with a key for the known species of Mysidopsis from tropical and warm temperate coastal waters of the wcstern Atlantic.