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{{Short description|Family of crustaceans}}
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| image = Aspidophryxus peltatus.png
| image_caption = ''[[Aspidophryxus peltatus]]'' female infested [[Mysida|mysid]] ''Erythrops''
| display_parents = 3
| taxon = Dajidae
| authority = [[Alfred Mathieu Giard|Giard]] & Bonnier, 1887
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision = see text
}}
The '''Dajidae''' are a [[family (biology)|family]] of marine [[Isopoda|isopod]] [[crustacean]]s in the suborder [[Cymothoida]].<ref name="WoRMS"/> The original description was made by Giard and Bonnier in 1887.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Alfred Giard  |author2=Jules Bonnier  |name-list-style=amp |year=1887 |title=Contributions a l'etude des bopyriens |journal=Travaux de l'Institut Zoologique de Lille et du Laboratoire Marine de Wimereux |volume=5 |pages=1–272}}</ref> Members of this family are [[Parasitism|ectoparasites]] of [[krill]]. They resemble a fleshy growth on the krill's back, and make the host look as if it is wearing a [[rucksack]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vims.edu/research/departments/eaah/programs/crustacean/research/parasitic_isopods/index.php |publisher=[[Virginia Institute of Marine Science]] |title=Epicaridea: the parasitic isopods of Crustacea |author=Jeffrey Shields |access-date=January 31, 2012 |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> These genera are included in the family Dajidae:<ref name="WoRMS">{{cite WoRMS |author=Chris Boyko & Marilyn Schotte |year=2011 |title=Dajidae |db=Isopod |id=146514 |accessdate=January 31, 2012}}</ref>
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*''[[Allophryxus]]'' <small>Koehler, 1911</small>
*''[[Antephyra]]'' <small>Schultz, 1978</small>
*''[[Arthrophryxus]]'' <small>Richardson, 1908</small>
*''[[Aspidophryxus]]'' <small>G. O. Sars, 1883</small>
*''[[Branchiophryxus]]'' <small>Caullery, 1897</small>
*''[[Colophryxus]]'' <small>Richardson, 1908</small>
*''[[Dajus]]'' <small>Krøyer, 1846</small>
*''[[Dolichophryxus]]'' <small>Schultz, 1977</small>
*''[[Heterophryxus]]'' <small>G. O. Sars, 1885</small>
*''[[Holophryxus]]'' <small>Richardson, 1905</small>
*''[[Notophryxus]]'' <small>G. O. Sars, 1883</small>
*''[[Oculophryxus]]'' <small>Shields & Gómez-Gutiérrez, 1996</small>
*''[[Paradajus]]'' <small>Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1923</small>
*''[[Paraspidophryxus]]'' <small>Schultz, 1977</small>
*''[[Prodajus]]'' <small>Bonnier, 1903</small>
*''[[Prophryxus]]'' <small>Richardson, 1909</small>
*''[[Streptodajus]]'' <small>Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1923</small>
*''[[Zonophryxus]]'' <small>Richardson, 1903</small>
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==References==
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{{Epicaridea}}
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[[Category:Cymothoida]]
[[Category:Isopod families]]
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