# Dajidae

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Dajidae
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Dajidae.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dajidae
> Source revision: 1355332004
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

{{Short description|Family of crustaceans}}
{{automatic taxobox
| image = Aspidophryxus peltatus.png
| image_caption = ''[Aspidophryxus peltatus](/source/Aspidophryxus_peltatus)'' female infested [mysid](/source/Mysida) ''Erythrops''
| display_parents = 3
| taxon = Dajidae
| authority = [Giard](/source/Alfred_Mathieu_Giard) & Bonnier, 1887
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision = see text
}}

The '''Dajidae''' are a [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) of marine [isopod](/source/Isopoda) [crustacean](/source/crustacean)s in the suborder [Cymothoida](/source/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](/source/Parasitism) of [krill](/source/krill). They resemble a fleshy growth on the krill's back, and make the host look as if it is wearing a [rucksack](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Allophryxus)'' <small>Koehler, 1911</small>
*''[Antephyra](/source/Antephyra)'' <small>Schultz, 1978</small>
*''[Arthrophryxus](/source/Arthrophryxus)'' <small>Richardson, 1908</small>
*''[Aspidophryxus](/source/Aspidophryxus)'' <small>G. O. Sars, 1883</small>
*''[Branchiophryxus](/source/Branchiophryxus)'' <small>Caullery, 1897</small>
*''[Colophryxus](/source/Colophryxus)'' <small>Richardson, 1908</small>
*''[Dajus](/source/Dajus)'' <small>Krøyer, 1846</small>
*''[Dolichophryxus](/source/Dolichophryxus)'' <small>Schultz, 1977</small>
*''[Heterophryxus](/source/Heterophryxus)'' <small>G. O. Sars, 1885</small>
*''[Holophryxus](/source/Holophryxus)'' <small>Richardson, 1905</small>
*''[Notophryxus](/source/Notophryxus)'' <small>G. O. Sars, 1883</small>
*''[Oculophryxus](/source/Oculophryxus)'' <small>Shields & Gómez-Gutiérrez, 1996</small>
*''[Paradajus](/source/Paradajus)'' <small>Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1923</small>
*''[Paraspidophryxus](/source/Paraspidophryxus)'' <small>Schultz, 1977</small>
*''[Prodajus](/source/Prodajus)'' <small>Bonnier, 1903</small>
*''[Prophryxus](/source/Prophryxus)'' <small>Richardson, 1909</small>
*''[Streptodajus](/source/Streptodajus)'' <small>Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1923</small>
*''[Zonophryxus](/source/Zonophryxus)'' <small>Richardson, 1903</small>
{{div col end}}

==References==
{{Reflist|32em}}

{{Epicaridea}}
{{Taxonbar|from=Q3911418}}

Category:Epicaridea
Category:Isopod families

{{Cymothoida-stub}}

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Dajidae](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dajidae) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dajidae?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.