Tags: Crustacean.

Asconiscus is a genus in the Asconiscidae family of marine isopod crustaceans in the suborder Cymothoida containing a single genus and a single species Asconiscus simplex. The original description of the family was made by Bonnier in 1900. A. simplex is a parasite of the shrimp-like crustacean Boreomysis arctica.

binomial authority
Georg Ossian Sars
class
Malacostraca
family
Epicaridea
kingdom
Animal
order
Isopoda, Cymothoida
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean

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