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{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}}
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| display_parents = 5
| grandparent_authority = Bonnier, 1900
| genus = Asconiscus
| parent_authority = [[Georg Ossian Sars|G. O. Sars]], 1899
| species = simplex
| authority = [[Georg Ossian Sars|G. O. Sars]], 1899
}}
'''''Asconiscus''''' is a genus in the '''Asconiscidae''' [[family (biology)|family]] of marine [[Isopoda|isopod]] [[crustacean]]s in the suborder [[Cymothoida]],  containing a single [[genus]] and a single [[species]],<ref name=WoRMS>[http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146511 World Register of Marine Species]</ref> '''''Asconiscus simplex'''''. The original description of the family was made by Bonnier in 1900.<ref>Bonnier, J. (1900). Contribution a l'étude des épicarides. Les Bopyridae. Travaux de la Station Zoologique de Wimereux 8: 1–475, pls. 1–41.</ref> ''A. simplex'' is a parasite of the shrimp-like crustacean, ''[[Boreomysis arctica]]''.<ref>[http://www.vims.edu/research/departments/eaah/programs/crustacean/research/parasitic_isopods/index.php Virginia Institute of Marine Science]</ref>
==References==
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{{Epicaridea}}
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[[Category:Cymothoida]]
[[Category:Monotypic isopod genera]]
[[Category:Crustaceans described in 1899]]
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