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 Neomysis and Zooplankton
The monitoring of neomysis and zooplankton is performed by the Neomysis and Zooplankton Survey. The following is a list of zooplankton species for which enough information is gathered to develop abundance indices. This list is not an all inclusive list of the species encountered in San Francisco Bay and Estuary.


List of introduced copepods and mysid shrimp.

COPEPOD SPECIES

ORIGIN YEAR INTRODUCED Oithona davisae Japan prior to 1963 Sinocalanus doerrii China 1978 Limnoithona sinensis China 1979 Pseudodiaptomus marinus China 1986 Pseudodiaptomus forbesi China 1987 Acartiella sinensis China 1992 Tortanus sp. ? 1992 Limnoithona tetraspina China 1992

MYSID SPECIES

Acanthomysis aspera Japan 1992 Acanthomysis sp.* ? 1992 * New to science, still undescribed

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