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

Dajidae G. O. Sars, 1883

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Aspidophryxus G. O. Sars, 1883
Branchiophryxus Caullery, 1897
Dajus Krøyer, [1842]
Heterophryxus G. O. Sars, 1885
Holophryxus Richardson, 1905
Notophryxus G. O. Sars, 1883
Prodajus Bonnier, 1903
Zonophryxus Richardson, 1903

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: アミヤドリムシ科

Literature

original description	Sars, G. O. (1883). Oversigt af Norges Crustaceer med foreløbige Bemærkninger over de nye eller mindre bekjendte Arter. I. (Podophthalmata - Cumacea - Isopoda - Amphipoda). Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiana. 18 [for 1882]: 1-124, pls. 1-6.
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.
source of synonymy	Boyko, C. B. & J. D. Williams. (2021). A review of the genus Zonophryxus Richardson, 1903 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Dajidae) with recognition of Colypurus agassizi Richardson, 1905 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Colypuridae) as a synonym of Zonophryxus similis Searle, 1914 and the requisite sinking of Colypuridae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 134: 243–264.
status source	Boyko, C. B.; Moss, J.; Williams, J. D.; Shields, J. D. (2013). A molecular phylogeny of Bopyroidea and Cryptoniscoidea (Crustacea: Isopoda). Systematics and Biodiversity. 11(4): 495-506.

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. Dajidae G. O. Sars, 1883. 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:146514