Anuropus is a genus of isopods in the suborder Cymothoida.

[2] The genus Anuropus was first circumscribed by the English zoologist Frank Evers Beddard in 1886.

His new genus coincided with his description of the type species, A.

[3][1] Beddard placed Anuropus in the family Cymothoidae, but in 1893, Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing wrote it "may have greater claims to be the type of a distinct family, Anuropidæ".

[4] In 1903, Hans Jacob Hansen thought Anuropus might possibly belong to the subfamily Cirolaninae or perhaps a new subfamily Anuropinae.