{{Short description|Family of crustaceans}} {{automatic taxobox | image = Hemigrapsus nudus from Coos Bay, Oregon, with carapace removed to show the entoniscid Portunion conformis - journal.pone.0035350.g001-F.png | image_caption = ''Portunion conformis'' (black pointer) within the body cavity of the crab ''Hemigrapsus nudus'' | display_parents = 3 | taxon = Entoniscidae | authority = Kossmann, 1881<ref>{{cite journal |author=R. Kossmann |year=1882 |title=The Entoniscidae |journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History |series=5th series |volume=10 |issue=56 |pages=81–99 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/94495#page/99/mode/1up |doi=10.1080/00222938209459679}} Translated by W. S. Dallas from {{cite journal |author=R. Kossmann |year=1882 |title=Die Entonisciden |journal=Mitteilungen aus der zoologischen Station zu Neapel |volume=3 |issue=1–2 |pages=149–169 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37448#page/159/mode/1up}}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = see text }}
The '''Entoniscidae ''' are a family of marine isopod crustaceans in the suborder Cymothoida.<ref name=WoRMS>{{cite web |author1=Chris Boyko |author2=Marilyn Schotte |name-list-style=amp |year=2011 |title=Entoniscidae |editor1=M. Schotte |editor2=C. B. Boyko |editor3=N. L. Bruce |editor4=G. C. B. Poore |editor5=S. Taiti |editor6=G. D. F. Wilson |work=World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database |publisher=World Register of Marine Species |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=147118 |accessdate=August 18, 2011}}</ref> Members of this family are parasites of brachyuran and anomuran crabs, living in their hosts' haemocoel. A small chitinised hole develops through the host's exoskeleton through which the isopod can communicate with the environment. The female isopod bears little resemblance to any free-living isopod, but the morphology of the larvae show their taxonomic affiliations.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vims.edu/research/departments/eaah/programs/crustacean/research/parasitic_isopods/index.php |publisher=Virginia Institute of Marine Science |accessdate=August 18, 2011 |title=Epicaridea: the parasitic isopods of Crustacea |author=Jeffrey Shields |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>
==Genera== {{div col|colwidth=21em}} *''Achelion'' <small>Hartnoll, 1966</small> *''Cancrion'' <small>Giard & Bonnier, 1886</small> *''Diogenion'' <small>Codreanu, Codreanu & Pike, 1960</small> *''Entione'' <small>Kossmann, 1881</small> *''Entionella'' <small>Miyashita, 1941</small> *''Entoniscoides'' <small>Miyashita, 1940</small> *''Entoniscus'' <small>Müller, 1862</small> *''Grapsion'' <small>Giard & Bonnier, 1886</small> *''Micippion'' <small>Shiino, 1942</small> *''Paguritherium'' <small>Reinhard, 1945</small> *''Pinnotherion'' <small>Giard & Bonnier, 1889</small> *''Portunion'' <small>Giard & Bonnier, 1886</small> *''Priapion'' <small>Giard & Bonnier, 1888</small> *''Synalpheion'' <small>Coutière, 1908</small> *''Tiarinion'' <small>Shiino, 1942</small> *''Xanthion'' <small>Shiino, 1942</small> {{div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist|32em}}
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