{{Short description|Family of crustaceans}} {{automatic taxobox | image = Aspidophryxus peltatus.png | image_caption = ''Aspidophryxus peltatus'' female infested mysid ''Erythrops'' | display_parents = 3 | taxon = Dajidae | authority = Giard & Bonnier, 1887 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = see text }}
The '''Dajidae''' are a family of marine isopod crustaceans in the suborder Cymothoida.<ref name="WoRMS"/> The original description was made by Giard and Bonnier in 1887.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Alfred Giard |author2=Jules Bonnier |name-list-style=amp |year=1887 |title=Contributions a l'etude des bopyriens |journal=Travaux de l'Institut Zoologique de Lille et du Laboratoire Marine de Wimereux |volume=5 |pages=1–272}}</ref> Members of this family are ectoparasites of krill. They resemble a fleshy growth on the krill's back, and make the host look as if it is wearing a rucksack.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vims.edu/research/departments/eaah/programs/crustacean/research/parasitic_isopods/index.php |publisher=Virginia Institute of Marine Science |title=Epicaridea: the parasitic isopods of Crustacea |author=Jeffrey Shields |access-date=January 31, 2012 |archive-date=January 5, 2019 |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> These genera are included in the family Dajidae:<ref name="WoRMS">{{cite WoRMS |author=Chris Boyko & Marilyn Schotte |year=2011 |title=Dajidae |db=Isopod |id=146514 |accessdate=January 31, 2012}}</ref> {{div col|colwidth=21em}} *''Allophryxus'' <small>Koehler, 1911</small> *''Antephyra'' <small>Schultz, 1978</small> *''Arthrophryxus'' <small>Richardson, 1908</small> *''Aspidophryxus'' <small>G. O. Sars, 1883</small> *''Branchiophryxus'' <small>Caullery, 1897</small> *''Colophryxus'' <small>Richardson, 1908</small> *''Dajus'' <small>Krøyer, 1846</small> *''Dolichophryxus'' <small>Schultz, 1977</small> *''Heterophryxus'' <small>G. O. Sars, 1885</small> *''Holophryxus'' <small>Richardson, 1905</small> *''Notophryxus'' <small>G. O. Sars, 1883</small> *''Oculophryxus'' <small>Shields & Gómez-Gutiérrez, 1996</small> *''Paradajus'' <small>Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1923</small> *''Paraspidophryxus'' <small>Schultz, 1977</small> *''Prodajus'' <small>Bonnier, 1903</small> *''Prophryxus'' <small>Richardson, 1909</small> *''Streptodajus'' <small>Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1923</small> *''Zonophryxus'' <small>Richardson, 1903</small> {{div col end}}
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