Organisms Diversity & Evolution 5 (2005)
Electronic Supplement 7

Wim Vader, Jan Roger Johnsen, Jørgen Berge:
Studies on the genus Onisimus Boeck, 1871 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lysianassoidea, Uristidae) I. The brevicaudatus and sextonae species groups

print version: Org. Divers. Evol. 5(2): 161-164. 2005 (abstract only)
electr. suppl.: full article. pdf-format, 3.57 MB

Abstract:

Based upon a thesis (Johnsen 2001) on the taxonomy of the uristid genus Onisimus Boeck, 1871, the latter is divided into five species groups to be treated in this and forthcoming publications; a key to these groups includes the genera Menigrates Boeck and Paralibrotus Stephensen. Further keys and redescriptions are presented to all species within two Onisimus species groups. The O. brevicaudatus-group comprises the species O. affinis Hansen, 1886 (= O. dubius Schellenberg, 1935, syn. n.), O. botkini Birula, 1897, O. brevicaudatus Hansen, 1887, O. caricus Hansen, 1887, and O. derjugini Gurjanova, 1929. The O. sextonae-group consists of the species O. abyssi Oldevig, 1959, O. leucopis (G.O. Sars, 1879), and O. sextonae Chevreux, 1926.

Key words: Uristidae; Onisimus; O. brevicaudatus-group; O. sextonae-group

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