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

Metacirolana Kussakin, 1979

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Metacirolana caeca (Hansen, 1916)
Metacirolana hanseni (Bonnier, 1896)

Literature

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, 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.
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.

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Citation

Bruce, Niel L.; Schotte, M. (2014). Metacirolana Kussakin, 1979. 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. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118403