WoRMS taxon details
Metacirolana caeca (Hansen, 1916)
256627 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:256627)
accepted
Species
Eurydice bathypelagica Schultz, 1977 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Eurydice caeca Hansen, 1916 · unaccepted (basionym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Eurydice caeca Hansen, 1916) Hansen, H. J. (1916). Crustacea Malacostraca. III. V. The order Isopoda. <em>The Danish Ingolf–Expedition.</em> 3(5): iii+ 262 pp., 16 pls. [details] 
Note N. Atlantic
From editor or global species database
type locality N. Atlantic [details]
Depth range 1800
Depth range 1800 [details]
Boyko, C.B.; Campos-Filho, I.S.; Hadfield, K.A.; Hughes, T.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Metacirolana caeca (Hansen, 1916). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=256627 on 2025-10-09
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Eurydice caeca Hansen, 1916) Hansen, H. J. (1916). Crustacea Malacostraca. III. V. The order Isopoda. <em>The Danish Ingolf–Expedition.</em> 3(5): iii+ 262 pp., 16 pls. [details]
original description (of Eurydice bathypelagica Schultz, 1977) Schultz, G. A. (1977). Bathypelagic Isopod Crustacea from the Antarctic and Southern Seas. <em>Antarctic Research Series, Biology of the Antarctic Seas.</em> 23(3): 69-128. [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25]. [details]
new combination reference Svavarsson, J. & Bruce, N.L. (2000) Redescription of the cosmopolitan meso- and bathypelagic cirolanid <i>Metacirolana caeca</i> (Hansen, 1916) comb. nov. (Crustacea, Isopoda). Steenstrupia, 25(2), 147–158. [details]
original description (of Eurydice bathypelagica Schultz, 1977) Schultz, G. A. (1977). Bathypelagic Isopod Crustacea from the Antarctic and Southern Seas. <em>Antarctic Research Series, Biology of the Antarctic Seas.</em> 23(3): 69-128. [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25]. [details]
new combination reference Svavarsson, J. & Bruce, N.L. (2000) Redescription of the cosmopolitan meso- and bathypelagic cirolanid <i>Metacirolana caeca</i> (Hansen, 1916) comb. nov. (Crustacea, Isopoda). Steenstrupia, 25(2), 147–158. [details]
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Depth range 1800 [details]Synonymy See Svavarson & Bruce (2000). [details]
type locality N. Atlantic [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Eurydice caeca Hansen, 1916)
To PESI (from synonym Eurydice caeca Hansen, 1916)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Eurydice bathypelagica Schultz, 1977)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 173138) (from synonym Eurydice bathypelagica Schultz, 1977)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Eurydice caeca Hansen, 1916)
To PESI (from synonym Eurydice caeca Hansen, 1916)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Eurydice bathypelagica Schultz, 1977)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 173138) (from synonym Eurydice bathypelagica Schultz, 1977)
