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

Rocinela Leach, 1818

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Acherusia*	Lucas, 1849	synonym

Children

Rocinela danmoniensis Leach, 1818
Rocinela dumerilii (Lucas, 1849)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ウオノシラミ属

Literature

original description	Leach, W. E. (1818). Cymothoadées, Cymothoadae. In: F. Cuvier (Ed.), Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, dans Lequel on Traite Methodiquement des Differens Etres de la Nature, Consideres Soit en Eux-memes, d'apres l'Etat Actuel de nos Connoissances, Soit Relativement a l'Utilite qu'en Peuvent Retirer la Medecine, l'Agriculture, le Commerce et les Artes. 12: 338-354.
basis of record	van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 315-321
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	Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.).
redescription	Bruce, N.L. (2009). The marine fauna of New Zealand: Isopoda, Aegidae (Crustacea. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir. 122: 1-252.

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. Rocinela Leach, 1818. 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:118396