Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Isopoda > Suborder Asellota > Superfamily Janiroidea

Janiridae G. O. Sars, 1897

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Ianiridae*	G. O. Sars, 1897	synonym
*Parasellidae*	Hansen, 1905	synonym

Children

Caecijaera Menzies, 1951
Carpias Richardson, 1902
Ianiropsis G. O. Sars, 1897
Jaera Leach, 1814
Janira Leach, 1814
Janiralata Menzies, 1951
Microjaera Bocquet & Levi, 1955
Microjanira Schiecke & Fresi, 1970

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ウミミズムシ科

Literature

additional source	Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25].
additional source	Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA). 124 pp.
identification resource	Wilson, G. D. F.; Wägele, J.-W. (1994). Review of the family Janiridae (Crustacea : Isopoda : Asellota). Invertebrate Systematics. 8(3): 683-747.

Genbank

Citation

Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Janiridae G. O. Sars, 1897. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118258

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Janiridae G. O. Sars, 1897. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/f064f942-9dff-4ecb-86d4-a660c9338d60