Janiroidea

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Peracarida
Ordo: Isopoda
Subordo: Asellota
Superfamilia: Janiroidea
Familiae: Acanthaspidiidae – Basoniscidae – Dendrotiidae – Desmosomatidae – Echinothambematidae – Haplomunnidae – Haploniscidae – Ischnomesidae – Janirellidae – Janiridae – Joeropsididae – Katianiridae – Lepidocharontidae – Macrostylidae – Mesosignidae – Microparasellidae – Mictosomatidae – Munnidae – Munnopsididae – Nannoniscidae – Paramunnidae – Pleurocopidae – Santiidae – Thambematidae – Urstylidae – Xenosellidae

Genera incertae sedis: Astrurus – Jaerella – Leptaspidia – Prethura – Rhacura – Salvatiella – Sugoniscus – Tole – Trichopleon – Urias – Xostylus

Name

Janiroidea Sars 1897

Type genus: Janira Leach, 1814

Synonyms

See lists of valid family-level names of subordinate taxa (names of families above and subfamilies of Desmosomatidae and Munnopsididae) and their synonyms.

References

Sars, G.O. 1897. Part V, VI. Idotheidae, Arcthuridae, Asellidae, Ianiridae, Munnidae. In: An account of the Crustacea of Norway. Vol. II. Isopoda. Bergen Museum, Bergen. Pp 81-116; plates 32-48. Reference page.
Galassi, D.M.P., Bruce, N.L., Fiasca, B. & Dole-Olivier, M-J. 2016. A new family Lepidocharontidae with description of Lepidocharon gen. n., from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, and redefinition of the Microparasellidae (Isopoda, Asellota). ZooKeys 594: 11-50. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.594.7539. Reference page.

Links

Janiroidea in the World List of Marine Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans