Cirolana Leach 1818

• Main Authors: Bruce, Niel L., Brandt, Angelika
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2006
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Cirolanidae; Cirolana; Southern Ocean; Ross Sea; Pacific; Indian; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475028; https://zenodo.org/record/5475028

Genus Cirolana Leach, 1818 REMARKS The genus Cirolana , with 100 described species, is the largest in the family Cirolanidae (Bruce 1986; Brusca et al . 1995; Bruce et al . 2002). It is known world-wide, having previously been recorded from all oceans except the Southern Ocean and polar waters. The genus occurs primarily in the shallow waters of the intertidal and on the shallow continental shelf, with only three species reliably recorded at depths greater than 1000 m (these being Cirolana australis Keable, 2001, C. bisulcata Hobbins & Jones, 1993 and C. epimerias Richardson, 1910). With the exception of C. bougaardti Kensley, 1984 and Cirolana stebbingi Nierstrasz, 1931 (both regarded as incertae sedis by Bruce 1986), all other species have been recorded at depths of less that 200 m. The genus has hitherto not been recorded from polar waters, or from latitudes greater than about 44°S and 54°N. The recent discovery of a new species of Cirolana in the Ross Sea at latitudes of 71° to 72°S is therefore a substantial extension of the known geographic distribution of the genus. The species conforms with the generic diagnoses given by Bruce (1986), Brusca et al . (1995), and Kensley & Schotte (1989). : Published as part of Bruce, Niel L. & Brandt, Angelika, 2006, A new species of Cirolana Leach, 1818 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cirolanidae) from the western Ross Sea, Antarctica, the first record of the genus from polar waters, pp. 315-324 in Zoosystema 28 (2) on page 317, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5754288 : {"references": ["BRUCE N. L. 1986. - Cirolanidae (Crustacea: Isopoda) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum Supplement 6: 1 - 239.", "BRUSCA R. C., WETZER R. & 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.", "BRUCE N. L., LEW TON H. M. & POORE G. C. B. 2002. - Cirolanidae Dana, 1852, in POORE G. C. B. (ed.), Crustacea: Malacostraca: Syncarida and Peracarida: Isopoda, Tanaidacea, Mictacea, Thermosbaenacea, Spelaeogriphacea, in HOUSTON W. W. K. & BEESLEY P. L. (eds), Zoological Catalogue of Australia Vol. 19.2 A. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne: 138 - 157.", "KEABLE S. J. 2001. - Three new species of Cirolana Leach, 1818 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 58 (2): 347 - 364.", "HOBBINS C. C. S. & JONES D. A. 1993. - New species of deep sea isopods from the Red Sea and North West Indian Ocean: families Cirolanidae and Corallanidae. Senckenbergiana Maritima 23: 115 - 234.", "RICHARDSON H. 1910. - Marine isopods collected in the Philippines by the U. S. Fisheries steamer Albatross in 1907 - 08. Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Fisheries Document, Washington Government Printing Office 736: 1 - 44.", "KENSLEY B. 1984. - The South African Museum's Meiring Naude cruises. Part 15. Marine Isopoda of the 1977, 1978, 1979 cruises. Annals of the South African Museum 93 (4): 213 - 301.", "NIERSTRASZ H. F. 1931. - Die Isopoden der Siboga - Expedition. Siboga - Expeditie Monograph Brill E. J., Leiden, 32 c: 16 - 227.", "KENSLEY B. & SCHOTTE M. 1989. - Guide to the Marine Isopod Crustaceans of the Caribbean. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C.; London, 308 p."]}