Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Hyperiidea > Infraorder Physocephalata > Parvorder Physocephalatidira > Superfamily Phronimoidea > Family Hyperiidae

Themisto Guérin, 1825

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Euthemisto*	Bovallius, 1887	synonym
*Parathemisto*	Boeck, 1871	synonym

Children

Themisto abyssorum (Boeck, 1871)
Themisto compressa Goës, 1866
Themisto gaudichaudii Guérin, 1825
Themisto libellula (Lichtenstein in Mandt, 1822)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: アシナガクラゲノミ属

Literature

original description	Guérin, F. E. (1825). Encyclopédie Méthodique Histoire Naturelle. Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes par M. Latreille. Tome 10. Paris.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Bowman, T. E. (1960). The pelagic Amphipod genus Parathemisto (Hyperiidea: Hyperiidae) in the North Pacific and adjacent Arctic Ocean. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 112(3439): 343-392.
identification resource	Zeidler, W. (1998). Pelagic Amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea) collected from Eastern and south-eastern Australian waters by the CSIRO research vessel "Warreen" during the years 1938-41. Records of the South Australian Museum Monograph Series. 4: 1-143.

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. Themisto Guérin, 1825. 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:101800