See text Idiomysis is a genus of small mysids found in warm, shallow waters of Indian Ocean (including Red Sea) and Pacific.

[2] Mysids from the genus Idiomysis are just few millimeters length; their cephalothorax is gibbous and robust whereas the abdomen is characteristically curled up behind[1].

There are six species described so far in the genus[2]: Idiomysis live in the small groups (called swarms) of 5 to more than 40 individuals, which hover over sea bottom during a day and probably feed on the seafloor on the nighttime.

Possibly mysids gain protection and/or food supply from this relationship, however the exact nature of the relation has not been studied[4].

The described species are known from Red Sea (I. diadema and I. tsurnamali), Mozambique Channel (I. mozambica), Gulf of Mannar (I. inermis), western coast of Australia (I. inermis), East China Sea (I. japonica) and western coast of South Africa (I. robusta)[2].