Cirolana

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Cirolana
Cirolana cranchii, the type species
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Isopoda
Suborder:
Cymothoida
Family:
Cirolanidae
Genus:
Cirolana

Leach, 1818 [1]
Species

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Cirolana is a genus of isopod crustaceans.

Names[edit]

Some of the species are named for people, as C. brucei for zoologist Niel L. Bruce, who has named many isopods; C. mercuryi for musician Freddie Mercury; C. cranchii for explorer John Cranch, a friend and employee of William Elford Leach who first described the genus in 1818. The generic name Cirolana is an anagram of Carolina, named for an unknown woman called Caroline. Leach named a number of isopod genera with anagrams of Caroline or Carolina.[2][3] In the French work in which Leach proposed these names he gave each new genus a French name as well as a Latin zoological name. Sometimes - as with Cirolana - it was the French name that was the anagram of Caroline; in this case 'Cirolane'.[4][5]

Species[edit]

Cirolana harfordi

Cirolana includes the following species:[6]

Subgenus Cirolana (Anopsilana) Leach, 1818

(main genus)

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Cirolana". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  2. ^ David M. Damkaer (2002). "Adding pages". The Copepodologist's Cabinet: A Biographical and Bibliographical History, Volume 1. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 240. American Philosophical Society. pp. 131–155. ISBN 978-0-87169-240-5.
  3. ^ White, Adam (1857). A Popular History of British Crustacea; Comprising a Familiar Account of Their Classification and Habits. Lovell Reeve. pp. 249–250.
  4. ^ [F.G. Cuvier] (1818). Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles... par Plusieurs Professeurs du Jardin du Roi, et des principales Écoles de Paris, Volume 12. Leach at pp. 347-352.
  5. ^ Keith Harrison & Eric Smith (2008). Rifle-Green by Nature: A Regency Naturalist and his Family, William Elford Leach. pp. 401-403, 455. London: The Ray Society. ISBN 978-0-9-03874-35-9.
  6. ^ Marilyn Schotte (2010). M. Schotte; C. B. Boyko; N. L. Bruce; G. C. B. Poore; S. Taiti; G. D. F. Wilson (eds.). "Cirolana Leach, 1815". World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 10 November 2014.


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