Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Amphilochidea > Infraorder Lysianassida > Parvorder Lysianassidira > Superfamily Lysianassoidea > Family Uristidae

Onisimus Boeck, 1871

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Alibrotus*	H. Milne Edwards, 1840	synonym
*Boeckosimus*	J.L. Barnard, 1969	synonym
*Onesimus*	Boeck, 1876	synonym
*Paronesimus*	Pirlot, 1933	synonym
*Pseudalibrotus*	Della Valle, 1893	synonym

Children

Boeckosimus crassini (Gorbunov, 1946)
Onisimus abyssi Oldevig, 1959
Onisimus affinis Hansen, 1887
Onisimus barentsi (Stebbing, 1894)
Onisimus birulai (Gurjanova, 1929)
Onisimus brevicaudatus Hansen, 1887
Onisimus caricus Hansen, 1887
Onisimus caspius (G.O. Sars, 1896)
Onisimus crassini Gorbunov, 1946
Onisimus derjugini Gurjanova, 1929
Onisimus edwardsii (Krøyer, 1846)
Onisimus glacialis (G.O. Sars, 1900)
Onisimus leucopis (G.O. Sars, 1879)
Onisimus litoralis (Krøyer, 1845)
Onisimus nanseni (G.O. Sars, 1900)
Onisimus normani G.O. Sars, 1891
Onisimus platyceras (G.O. Sars, 1896)
Onisimus plautus (Krøyer, 1845)
Onisimus sextonae (Chevreux, 1926)
Onisimus simus Gurjanova, 1962
Onisimus turgidus (G.O. Sars, 1879)

Literature

original description	Boeck, A. (1871). Crustacea amphipoda borealia et arctica. Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania. 1870: 83-280.
additional source	Berge, J.; Vader, W.; Johnsen, W. (2007). Studies on the genus Onisimus Boeck, 1871 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Uristidae) II. The barentsi and edwardsii groups. Zootaxa. 1410: 55–68.
additional source	Vader W., Johnsen J.R. & Berge J. (2005). Studies on the genus Onisimus Boeck, 1871 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lysianassoidea, Uristidae). Part 1. The brevicaudatus and sextonae species groups. Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 5: 161-164.
additional source	Lowry, J.K.; Stoddart, H.E. (1993). The Onisimus problem (Amphipoda, Lysianassoidea, Uristidae). Zoologica Scripta. 22(2): 167-181.

Genbank

Citation

Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copilas-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2025). World Amphipoda Database. Onisimus Boeck, 1871. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:101631