Species profile

Bloody Red Shrimp

Hemimysis anomala G.O.Sars, 1907

How we detect Bloody Red Shrimp

Occurrence density

Where Bloody Red Shrimp has been recorded

Aggregated occurrence records across its known range.

The bloody-red mysid, Hemimysis anomala, is a shrimp-like crustacean in the Mysida order, native to the Ponto-Caspian region, which has been spreading across Europe since the 1950s. In 2006, it was discovered to have invaded the North American Great Lakes.