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

Entoniscidae Kossmann, 1881

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Entonisciden*	Kossmann, 1881	synonym

Children

Entioninae Codreanu, Codreanu & Pike, 1960
Entoniscinae Kossmann, 1881

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: カニヤドリムシ科

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.
additional source	Kossman [sic], R. (1882). The Entoniscidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 5th ser. 10(56): 81-99, pl. 9 (translated from the German by W.S. Dallas).

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. Entoniscidae Kossmann, 1881. 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:147118