Subfamilia Boreomysinae

Holt and Tattersall, 1905

Diagnosis
Female with 7 pairs of oostegites. Endopods of 3rd to 8th pereopods with 3- or 4-jointed carpopropodus. Outer margin of antennal scale naked, terminating in a thorn. Exopod of uropods unjointed; outer margin with 1 or 2 spinules marking end of short naked proximal part.
Telson cleft distally; cleft armed with teeth, without plumose setae. Includes only one genus, Boreomysis, with about 40 species. Most species bathypelagic.

Genus treated:

Genus Boreomysis

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