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 Cirolanidae

Cirolana Leach, 1818

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Nelocira*	Leach, 1818	synonym

Children

Cirolana cranchii Leach, 1818
Cirolana ferruginosa Risso, 1826
Cirolana perlata Barnard, 1936

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: スナホリムシ属

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	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.).
source of synonymy	Bruce, N. L.; De Lourdes Serrano-Sánchez, M.; Carbot-Chanona, G.; Vega, F. J. (2021). New species of fossil Cirolanidae (Isopoda, Cymothoida) from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) Sierra Madre Formation plattenkalk dolomites of El Espinal quarries, Chiapas, SE Mexico. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 109 (103285): 1-13.
taxonomy source	Bruce, N. L. (1986) Cirolanidae (Crustacea: Isopoda) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum Supplement 6: 1-239.
taxonomy source	Brusca, R. C., Wetzer, R. and France, S. C. (1995) Cirolanidae, Crustacea: Isopoda: Flabellifera of the tropical eastern Pacific. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 30: 1-96.

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. Cirolana 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:118399