The Cabiropidae are a

family Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Idea ...

isopod Isopoda is an order of crustaceans that includes woodlice and their relatives. Isopods live in the sea, in fresh water, or on land. All have rigid, segmented exoskeletons, two pairs of antennae, seven pairs of jointed limbs on the thorax, an ...

crustacean Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean gro ...

s in the suborder

Cymothoida Cymothoida is the name of a suborder of isopod crustaceans with a mostly carnivorous or parasitic lifestyle. It contains more than 2,700 described species in four superfamilies. Members of the suborder are characterised by their specialised mout ...

. The original description was made by Giard and Bonnier in 1887. Members of the family are

hyperparasite A hyperparasite, also known as a metaparasite, is a parasite whose host, often an insect, is also a parasite, often specifically a parasitoid. Hyperparasites are found mainly among the wasp-waisted Apocrita within the Hymenoptera, and in two ot ...

s of other parasitic

isopods Isopoda is an order of crustaceans that includes woodlice and their relatives. Isopods live in the sea, in fresh water, or on land. All have rigid, segmented exoskeletons, two pairs of antennae, seven pairs of jointed limbs on the thorax, an ...

in the order and some are parasites on other free-living isopods. The family contains these

genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial ...

:World Register of Marine Species
/ref> *'' Aegoniscus'' Barnard, 1925 *'' Ancyroniscus'' Caullery & Mesnil, 1919 *'' Arcturocheres'' Hansen, 1916 *'' Astacilloechus'' Hansen, 1916 *'' Bourdonia'' Rybakov, 1990 *'' Cabirops'' Kossmann, 1884 *'' Cirolanoniscus'' Pillai, 1966 *'' Cironiscus'' Nielsen, 1967 *'' Clypeoniscus'' Giard & Bonnier, 1895 *'' Gnomoniscus'' Giard & Bonnier, 1895 *'' Munnoniscus'' Giard & Bonnier, 1895 *'' Podoniscus'' Bourdon, 1981 *'' Seroloniscus'' Giard & Bonnier, 1895

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Cymothoida Crustacean families {{Isopod-stub