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

*Metacirolana*	Kussakin, 1979	accepted 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.

Genbank

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