{{Short description|Family of crustaceans}} {{automatic taxobox | display_parents = 3 | taxon = Cyproniscidae | authority = Giard and Bonnier, 1887 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = see text }}
The '''Cyproniscidae''' are a family of marine isopod crustaceans in the suborder Cymothoida. The original description was made by Bonnier in 1900.<ref>Giard, A., and Bonnier, J. (1887) Contributions a l'etude des bopyriens. Travaux de l'Institut Zoologique de Lille et du Laboratoire Marine de Wimereux 5: 1-272.</ref> Members of this family are parasitic on other isopods.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.vims.edu/research/departments/eaah/programs/crustacean/research/parasitic_isopods/index.php |title=Virginia Institute of Marine Science |access-date=2011-07-21 |archive-date=2019-01-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105043313/http://www.vims.edu/research/departments/eaah/programs/crustacean/research/parasitic_isopods/index.php |url-status=dead }}</ref>
The family contains these genera and species:<ref name=WoRMS>[http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=248296 World Register of Marine Species]</ref> *''Cyproniscus''<small> Kossmann, 1884</small> **''Cyproniscus crossophori''<small> Stebbing, 1901</small> **''Cyproniscus cypridinae''<small> (G.O. Sars, 1883)</small> **''Cyproniscus decemspinosus''<small> Menzies & George, 1972</small> **''Cyproniscus octospinosus''<small> Menzies & George, 1972</small> **''Cyproniscus peruvicus''<small> Menzies & George, 1972</small> *''Onisocryptus''<small> Schultz, 1977</small> **''Onisocryptus kurilensis''<small> Rybakov, 1998</small> **''Onisocryptus ovalis''<small> (Shiino, 1942)</small> **''Onisocryptus sagittus''<small> Schultz, 1977</small>
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