Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Isopoda > Suborder Asellota > Superfamily Janiroidea

Nannoniscidae Hansen, 1916

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Nannoniscini*	Hansen, 1916	synonym

Children

Austroniscus Vanhöffen, 1914
Hebefustis Siebenaller & Hessler, 1977
Nannoniscoides Hansen, 1916
Nannoniscus G. O. Sars, 1870
Nymphodora Kaiser, 2009
Panetela Siebenaller & Hessler, 1981
Rapaniscus Siebenaller & Hessler, 1981
Thaumastosoma Hessler, 1970

Literature

original description	Hansen, H. J. (1916). Crustacea Malacostraca. III. V. The order Isopoda. The Danish Ingolf–Expedition. 3(5): iii+ 262 pp., 16 pls.
basis of record	Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25].
additional source	Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA). 124 pp.
redescription	Wilson, G. D. F. (2008). A review of taxonomic concepts in the Nannoniscidae (Isopoda, Asellota), with a key to the genera and a description of Nannoniscus oblongus Sars. Zootaxa. 1680: 1–24.
identification resource	Wilson, G. D. F. (2008). A review of taxonomic concepts in the Nannoniscidae (Isopoda, Asellota), with a key to the genera and a description of Nannoniscus oblongus Sars. Zootaxa. 1680: 1–24.

Genbank

Citation

Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Nannoniscidae Hansen, 1916. 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:118265