page_title: Cryptoniscidae
hierarchical_section_title: Cryptoniscidae
caption_attribution_description: English: Alpheus sp. aff. paracrinitus Miers, 1881 (Caridea: Alpheidae) from Fiji with Faba sp. (=Zeuxokoma sp.) (Cryptoniscidae) attached to ventral surface (host not previously recorded with any epicaridean). Photograph used by permission of Leslie Harris. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035350.g001
context_page_description: The Cryptoniscidae are a family of isopod crustaceans in the suborder Cymothoida. The original description was made by Kossmann in 1880. "Liriopsidae" is a junior synonym. Members of this family are hyperparasites of rhizocephalid barnacles which are themselves parasites of decapod crustaceans. The morphology of the adult females gives little clue as to their true identity, but the free-living larvae show their true taxonomic affiliations.
  The family contains these genera:
  Cryptoniscus F. Müller, 1864
  Danalia Giard, 1887
  Enthylacus Pérez, 1920
  Eumetor Kossmann, 1872
  Faba Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1930
  Liriopsis Schultze in Müller, 1859
  Perezina Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1930
  Zeuxokoma Grygier, 1993
context_section_description: The Cryptoniscidae are a family of isopod crustaceans in the suborder Cymothoida. The original description was made by Kossmann in 1880. "Liriopsidae" is a junior synonym. Members of this family are hyperparasites of rhizocephalid barnacles which are themselves parasites of decapod crustaceans. The morphology of the adult females gives little clue as to their true identity, but the free-living larvae show their true taxonomic affiliations.
  The family contains these genera:
  Cryptoniscus F. Müller, 1864
  Danalia Giard, 1887
  Enthylacus Pérez, 1920
  Eumetor Kossmann, 1872
  Faba Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1930
  Liriopsis Schultze in Müller, 1859
  Perezina Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1930
  Zeuxokoma Grygier, 1993
caption: Alpheus sp. from Fiji with Faba sp. (Cryptoniscidae) attached to ventral surface
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