Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Isopoda > Suborder Cymothoida > Superfamily Cymothooidea > Family Cirolanidae > Genus Metacirolana

Metacirolana caeca (Hansen, 1916)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

MetacirolanaKussakin, 1979accepted genus name

Species group names

Eurydice caeca Hansen, 1916 basionym
Eurydice caeca Hansen, 1916 synonym

Literature

original description

Hansen, H. J. (1916) Crustacea Malacostraca 3. Danish Ingolf Expedition 3 (5): 1-262.

basis of record

Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley, and S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA.

additional source

Webber, W.R.; Fenwick, G.D.; Bradford-Grieve, J.M.; Eagar S.G.; Buckeridge, J.S.; Poore, G.C.B.; Dawson, E.W.; Watling, L.; Jones, J.B.; Wells, J.B.J.; Bruce, N.L.; Ahyong, S.T.; Larsen, K.; Chapman, M.A.; Olesen, J.; Ho, J.; Green, J.D.; Shiel, R.J.; Rocha, C.E.F.; Lörz, A.; Bird, G.J.; Charleston, W.A. (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.

new combination reference

Svavarsson, J. & Bruce, N.L. (2000) Redescription of the cosmopolitan meso- and bathypelagic cirolanid Metacirolana caeca (Hansen, 1916) comb. nov. (Crustacea, Isopoda). Steenstrupia, 25(2), 147–158.

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Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Isopod Collection
GBIF

Citation

Schotte, M. (2014). Metacirolana caeca (Hansen, 1916). In: Schotte, M.; Boyko, C.B; Bruce, N.L.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S. & Wilson, G.D.F. (Eds) (2014) World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=256627

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Occurrence

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Environment


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Importance

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2012-11-16 by Angelika Brandt

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