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

Janiroidea 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
Ilyarachnidae Hansen, 1916
Ischnomesidae Hansen, 1916
Janirellidae Menzies, 1956
Janiridae Sars, 1897
Joeropsididae Nordenstam, 1933
Katianiridae Svavarsson, 1987
Macrostylidae Hansen, 1916
Munnidae Sars, 1897
Munnopsidae Lilljeborg, 1864
Nannoniscidae Hansen, 1916
Paramunnidae Vanhöffen, 1914
Pleurocopidae Fresi & Schiecke, 1972
Thambematidae Stebbing, 1913

Literature

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

WoRMS (2014). Janiroidea Sars, 1897. 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:155716