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

Paramunnidae Vanhöffen, 1914

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Pleurogoniidae*	Nordenstam, 1933	synonym
*Pleurogoniini*	Nordenstam, 1933	synonym

Children

Metamunna Tattersall, 1905
Neasellus Beddard, 1885
Paramunna G. O. Sars, 1866
Pleurogonium G. O. Sars, 1872
Tethygonium Just & Wilson, 2007

Literature

original description	Vanhöffen, E. (1914). Die Isopoden der deutschen Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903. Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition, Zoologie. 15: 447-598.
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.
identification resource	Just, J.; Wilson, G.D.F. (2007). Revision of Austrosignum Hodgson and Munnogonium George & Strömberg (Paramunnidae) with descriptions of eight new genera and two new species, (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota). Zootaxa. 1515: 1-29.
identification resource	Just, J.; Wilson, G.D.F. (2006). Revision of Southern Hemisphere Austronanus Hodgson, 1910, with two new genera and five new species of Paramunnidae (Crustacea. Isopoda: Asellota). Zootaxa. 1111: 21-58.
identification resource	Just, J.; Wilson, G.D.F. (2004). Revision of the Paramunna complex (Isopoda: Asellota: Paramunnidae). Invertebrate Systematics. 18(4): 377-466.

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. Paramunnidae Vanhöffen, 1914. 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:118266