Cirolana Leach, 1818

Rodcharoen, Eknarin, Bruce, Niel L. & Pholpunthin, Pornsilp, 2014, Cirolana songkhla, a new species of brackish-water cirolanid isopod (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cirolanidae) from the lower Gulf of Thailand, ZooKeys 375, pp. 1-14 : 1-3

Genus Cirolana Leach, 1818

Restricted synonymy.

Bruce 1986: 139, Kensley and Schotte 1989: 132, Brusca et al. 1995: 17.

Remarks.

Cirolana is the largest genus of the Cirolanidae ( Bruce 1981, 1986, Brusca et al. 1995, Keable 2006) with 129 named species ( Bruce and Schotte 2013) and many more not yet described. Cirolana occurs from cool-temperate to tropical regions, primarily in marine environments, but also occasionally found in low-salinity habitats, such as mangroves, estuarine reaches of rivers and creeks ( Bruce 1986), and also rarely found in freshwater and cave and ground waters ( Kensley and Schotte 1989, Botosaneanu and Iliffe 2000). Most low salinity and freshwater species of Cirolana lack setae on the endopods of pleopods 3 and 4, and were formerly placed in the genus Anopsilana Paulian & Delamare-Debouteville, 1956 (e.g. Bruce 1986; Bruce and Iliffe 1993), but following Botosaneanu and Iliffe (1997) the genus is now accepted as a junior synonym of Cirolana .

Diagnoses to the genus have been given by Bruce (1986), Brusca et al. (1995) and Kensley and Schotte (1989).