Asconiscus

{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}} {{speciesbox | display_parents = 5 | grandparent_authority = Bonnier, 1900 | genus = Asconiscus | parent_authority = G. O. Sars, 1899 | species = simplex | authority = 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,<ref name=WoRMS>[http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146511 World Register of Marine Species]</ref> '''''Asconiscus simplex'''''. The original description of the family was made by Bonnier in 1900.<ref>Bonnier, J. (1900). Contribution a l'étude des épicarides. Les Bopyridae. Travaux de la Station Zoologique de Wimereux 8: 1–475, pls. 1–41.</ref> ''A. simplex'' is a parasite of the shrimp-like crustacean, ''Boreomysis arctica''.<ref>[http://www.vims.edu/research/departments/eaah/programs/crustacean/research/parasitic_isopods/index.php Virginia Institute of Marine Science]</ref>

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Category:Epicaridea Category:Monotypic isopod genera Category:Crustaceans described in 1899