Genus Cirolana Leach, 1818

Restricted synonymy. Bruce, 1986: 139.— Kensley & Schotte, 1989: 132.— Brusca et al. 1995: 17.— Schotte & Kensley, 2005:1218.

Remarks. Sidabalok (2019) in her analysis of the genus Cirolana identified several apomorphy supported clades. The larger clades have been given ‘group names’ such as the Cirolana ‘ parva group’ and the Cirolana ‘ pleonastica group’ (see Rodcharoen et al. 2016; Sidabalok & Bruce 2017, 2018a). Cirolana swaraj sp. nov. belongs with a small group of, at present’, five species that includes the type species Cirolana cranchi Leach, 1818 .

The most recent detailed and comprehensive diagnoses to Cirolana remain those of Bruce (1986) and Brusca et al. (1995). More recently restrictive diagnoses to definable species groups within the genus have been given by Bruce (2004) for the Cirolana ‘ parva group’ and by Sidabalok & Bruce (2018) for the Cirolana ‘ pleonastica group’.