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 > Genus Onisimus

Onisimus abyssi Oldevig, 1959

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Onisimus*	Boeck, 1871	accepted genus name
*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

Species group names

*Boeckosimus abyssi*	(Oldevig, 1959)	synonym

Literature

original description	Oldevig, H. (1959). Arctic, Subarctic and Scandinavian Amphipods in the collections of the Swedish Natural History Museum in Stockholm. Goteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhalles Handlingar, sjatte foljden, (ser B.). 8, 2, pp. 1-132;4 pls.
additional source	Lowry, J.K.; Stoddart, H.E. (1993). The Onisimus problem (Amphipoda, Lysianassoidea, Uristidae). Zoologica Scripta. 22(2): 167-181.
redescription	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.

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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 abyssi Oldevig, 1959. 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:102635