Tags: Crustacean.
Shiinoidae is a family of parasitic copepods. The first species in the family to be described was Shiinoa occlusa a single immature female of which was discovered on the fish Scomberomorus commerson and described by Kabata in 1968. A second species S. inauris was found on Scomberomorus regalis and described by Roger Cressey in 1975 who also erected the family to hold the genus Shiinoa alone.