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

Janiroidea G. O. Sars, 1897

Rank: Superfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Acanthaspidiidae Menzies, 1962
Dendrotionidae Vanhöffen, 1914
Desmosomatidae G. O. Sars, 1897
Haplomunnidae Wilson, 1976
Haploniscidae Hansen, 1916
Ischnomesidae Hansen, 1916
Janirellidae Menzies, 1956
Janiridae G. O. Sars, 1897
Janiroidea incertae sedis
Joeropsididae Nordenstam, 1933
Katianiridae Svavarsson, 1987
Lepidocharontidae Galassi & Bruce in Galassi, Bruce, Fiasca & Dole-Olivier, 2016
Macrostylidae Hansen, 1916
Microparasellidae Karaman, 1934
Munnidae G. O. Sars, 1897
Munnopsidae Lilljeborg, 1864
Nannoniscidae Hansen, 1916
Paramunnidae Vanhöffen, 1914
Pleurocopidae Fresi & Schiecke, 1972
Thambematidae Stebbing, 1912

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ウミミズムシ上科

Literature

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.

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. Janiroidea G. O. Sars, 1897. 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:155716