Asconiscus

Asconiscus simplex
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Isopoda
Suborder:	Cymothoida
Superfamily:	Cryptoniscoidea
Family:	Asconiscidae; Bonnier, 1900
Genus:	Asconiscus; G. O. Sars, 1899
Species:	A. simplex
Binomial name
	Asconiscus simplex; G. O. Sars, 1899

Asconiscus is a genus in the Asconiscidae family of marine isopod crustaceans in the suborder Cymothoida, containing a single genus and a single species,^[1] Asconiscus simplex. The original description of the family was made by Bonnier in 1900.^[2] A. simplex is a parasite of the shrimp-like crustacean, .^[3]

References[]

^ World Register of Marine Species
^ Bonnier, J. (1900). Contribution a l'étude des épicarides. Les Bopyridae. Travaux de la Station Zoologique de Wimereux 8: 1–475, pls. 1–41.
^ Virginia Institute of Marine Science

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[WoRMS-1] World Register of Marine Species

[2] Bonnier, J. (1900). Contribution a l'étude des épicarides. Les Bopyridae. Travaux de la Station Zoologique de Wimereux 8: 1–475, pls. 1–41.

[3] Virginia Institute of Marine Science

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v t Families of Epicaridea (Crustacea: Isopoda)
Bopyroidea	Bopyridae Dajidae Entoniscidae
Cryptoniscoidea	Asconiscidae Cabiropidae Crinoniscidae Cryptoniscidae Cyproniscidae Hemioniscidae Podasconidae