WoRMS taxon details
Cirolana harfordi (Lockington, 1877)
256526 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:256526)
accepted
Species
Aega harfordii Lockington, 1877 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Cirolana californica Hansen, 1890 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cirolana thielemanni Kussakin, 1979 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cirolana toyamaensis Nunomura, 1982 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Subspecies Cirolana harfordi japonica Thielemann, 1910
- Subspecies Cirolana harfordi spongicola Stafford, 1912
- Variety Cirolana harfordi var. spongicola Stafford, 1912 accepted as Cirolana harfordi spongicola Stafford, 1912 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Aega harfordii Lockington, 1877) Lockington, W.N. (1877). Description of seventeen new species of Crustacea. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> 7 [for 1876]: 41-48. [details] 
Note California, USA
From editor or global species database
type locality California, USA [details]
Depth range intertidal
Depth range intertidal [details]
Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Campos-Filho, I.S.; Hadfield, K.A.; Hughes, T.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2026). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Cirolana harfordi (Lockington, 1877). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=256526 on 2026-06-20
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Aega harfordii Lockington, 1877) Lockington, W.N. (1877). Description of seventeen new species of Crustacea. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> 7 [for 1876]: 41-48. [details]
original description (of Cirolana toyamaensis Nunomura, 1982) Nunomura, N. (1982) Cirolana toyamaensis, a new cirolanid isopod from Toyama Bay, central Japan. Bulletin of the Toyama Science Museum 4: 23-30. [details]
original description (of Cirolana californica Hansen, 1890) Hansen, H. J. (1890). Cirolanidæ et familiæ nonnullæ propinquæ musei hauniensis. Et bidrag til kundskaben om nogle familier af isopode krebsdyr. <em>Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter, 6te Raekke, Naturvidenskabelig Og Mathematisk Afdeling.</em> 3: 239–426, pls. 1–10., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.10325 [details]
original description (of Cirolana thielemanni Kussakin, 1979) Kussakin, O. G. (1979). Morskye I solonovatovodnye ravnonogie rakoobrasnye (Isopoda) cholodnix I umerennix vod severnogo polushariya. [Marine and brackishwater like-footed Crustacea (Isopoda) from the cold and temperate waters of the Northern Hemisphere] Podotryad Flabellifera. <em>Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR, Izdavaemye Zoologicheskim Institutom Akademii Nauk SSSR.</em> 122(1): 472 pp. Leningrad: Nauka. [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]
original description (of Cirolana toyamaensis Nunomura, 1982) Nunomura, N. (1982) Cirolana toyamaensis, a new cirolanid isopod from Toyama Bay, central Japan. Bulletin of the Toyama Science Museum 4: 23-30. [details]
original description (of Cirolana californica Hansen, 1890) Hansen, H. J. (1890). Cirolanidæ et familiæ nonnullæ propinquæ musei hauniensis. Et bidrag til kundskaben om nogle familier af isopode krebsdyr. <em>Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter, 6te Raekke, Naturvidenskabelig Og Mathematisk Afdeling.</em> 3: 239–426, pls. 1–10., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.10325 [details]
original description (of Cirolana thielemanni Kussakin, 1979) Kussakin, O. G. (1979). Morskye I solonovatovodnye ravnonogie rakoobrasnye (Isopoda) cholodnix I umerennix vod severnogo polushariya. [Marine and brackishwater like-footed Crustacea (Isopoda) from the cold and temperate waters of the Northern Hemisphere] Podotryad Flabellifera. <em>Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR, Izdavaemye Zoologicheskim Institutom Akademii Nauk SSSR.</em> 122(1): 472 pp. Leningrad: Nauka. [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]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Bruce, N. L. (1986) Cirolanidae (Crustacea: Isopoda) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum Supplement 6: 1-239. [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]
context source (HKRMS) Bruce, N. L. (1990). New records of isopod Malacostracans (Flabellifera) from Hong Kong. <em>In: Morton B, editor. Proceedings of the second international marine biological workshop: the marine flora and fauna of Hong Kong, 1986, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong.</em> 549-554. [details]
additional source Brusca, R. C., Wetzer, R. and France, S. C. (1995) Cirolanidae, Crustacea: Isopoda: Flabellifera of the tropical eastern Pacific. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 30: 1-96. [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
context source (HKRMS) Bruce, N. L. (1990). New records of isopod Malacostracans (Flabellifera) from Hong Kong. <em>In: Morton B, editor. Proceedings of the second international marine biological workshop: the marine flora and fauna of Hong Kong, 1986, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong.</em> 549-554. [details]
additional source Brusca, R. C., Wetzer, R. and France, S. C. (1995) Cirolanidae, Crustacea: Isopoda: Flabellifera of the tropical eastern Pacific. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 30: 1-96. [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Depth range intertidal [details]type locality California, USA [details]
From regional or thematic species database
Introduced species impact Australian part of the Tasman Sea (Marine Region) Other impact - undefined or uncertain: The results showed no change in the structure of assemblages where C. harfordi were introduced, and those assemblages were similar to those in natural oyster-beds, thus supporting the initial patterns observed in the field. The evidence did not support the general assumption that non-indigenous species with high biomass and abundance causeimpacts on local assemblages. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | トヤマスナホリムシ [from synonym] | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cirolana harfordi)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Aega harfordii Lockington, 1877)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (71 records)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cirolana harfordi)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Aega harfordii Lockington, 1877)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (71 records)
To ITIS
