Cyproideidae is a

family Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ...

amphipod Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods range in size from and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. There are more than 9,900 amphipod species so far descr ...

crustacean Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group ...

s. Eighteen genera and 43 species have been described as of 2009. They mostly occur mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, where they form associations with

coral Corals are marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria. They typically form compact colonies of many identical individual polyps. Coral species include the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and sec ...

sponge Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera (; meaning 'pore bearer'), are a basal animal clade as a sister of the diploblasts. They are multicellular organisms that have bodies full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate through t ...

s, crinoids and hydroids.

Genera

The following 18 genera are included: *''

Austropheonoides ''Austropheonoides'' is a genus of amphipods in the Cyproideidae family, and was first described in 1972 by Jerry Laurens Barnard Species of this genus are found in the Australian IMCRA regions of Southwest Shelf Province, the Great Australian B ...

'' J. L. Barnard, 1972 *'' Cyproidea'' Haswell, 1879 *'' Gbroidea'' Lowry & Azman, 2008 *'' Hoplopheonoides'' Shoemaker, 1956 *'' Hoplopleon'' K. H. Barnard, 1932 *'' Mokuoloe'' J. L. Barnard, 1970 *'' Moolapheonoides'' J. L. Barnard, 1974 *'' Narapheonoides'' J. L. Barnard, 1972 *'' Neocyproidea'' Hurley, 1955 *'' Paracyproidea'' Stebbing, 1899 *'' Peltocoxa'' Catta, 1875 *'' Peltopes'' K. H. Barnard, 1930 *'' Pseudopeltocoxa'' Schiecke, 1977 *'' Stegoplax'' Sars, 1883 *'' Terepeltopes'' Hirayama, 1983 *'' Unguja'' Griffiths, 1976 *'' Unyapheonoides'' J. L. Barnard, 1972 *'' Victorhensenoides'' Rauschert, 1996

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* Gammaridea Crustacean families {{amphipod-stub