The Cyproniscidae are 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 ...

of marine

isopod Isopoda is an order of crustaceans that includes woodlice and their relatives. Isopods live in the sea, in fresh water, or on land. All have rigid, segmented exoskeletons, two pairs of antennae, seven pairs of jointed limbs on the thorax, an ...

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 in the suborder Cymothoida. The original description was made by Bonnier in 1900. Members of this family are parasitic on other isopods.Virginia Institute of Marine Science
/ref> The family contains these

genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...

and

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

:World Register of Marine Species
/ref> *'' Cyproniscus'' Kossmann, 1884 **'' Cyproniscus crossophori'' Stebbing, 1901 **'' Cyproniscus cypridinae'' (G.O. Sars, 1883) **'' Cyproniscus decemspinosus'' Menzies & George, 1972 **'' Cyproniscus octospinosus'' Menzies & George, 1972 **'' Cyproniscus peruvicus'' Menzies & George, 1972 *'' Onisocryptus'' Schultz, 1977 **'' Onisocryptus kurilensis'' Rybakov, 1998 **'' Onisocryptus ovalis'' (Shiino, 1942) **'' Onisocryptus sagittus'' Schultz, 1977

References

Cymothoida Crustacean families {{Isopod-stub