Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Isopoda > Suborder Cymothoida > Infraorder Epicaridea > Superfamily Bopyroidea

Entoniscidae Kossmann, 1881

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Cancrion Giard & Bonnier, 1886
Entionella Miyashita, 1941
Entoniscus Müller, 1862
Pinnotherion Giard & Bonnier, 1889
Portunion Giard & Bonnier, 1886
Priapion Giard & Bonnier, 1888

Literature

original description	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).
basis of record	Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley, and S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA.
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). vii, 123 pp.

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Citation

Boyko, C.; Schotte, M. (2014). Entoniscidae Kossmann, 1881. In: Schotte, M.; Boyko, C.B; Bruce, N.L.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S. & Wilson, G.D.F. (Eds) (2014) World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:147118