Isopoda

WoRMS taxon details

Cirolana cranchii Leach, 1818

118839  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118839)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Malacostraca (Class)
  7. Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
  8. Peracarida (Superorder)
  9. Isopoda (Order)
  10. Cymothoida (Suborder)
  11. Cymothooidea (Superfamily)
  12. Cirolanidae (Family)
  13. Cirolana (Genus)
  14. Cirolana cranchii (Species)
accepted
Species
Conilera grampoides Gourret, 1891 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cymothoa swainsoni (Leach, 1818) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Nelocira swainsoni Leach, 1818 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Nerocila swainsoni (Leach, 1818) · unaccepted > junior objective synonym

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  1. Variety Cirolana cranchii var. australiense Hale, 1925 accepted as Cirolana australiense Hale, 1925 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Leach, W. E. (1818). Cymothoadées, Cymothoadae. <em>In: F. Cuvier (Ed.), Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, dans Lequel on Traite Methodiquement des Differens Etres de la Nature, Consideres Soit en Eux-memes, d'apres l'Etat Actuel de nos Connoissances, Soit Relativement a l'Utilite qu'en Peuvent Retirer la Medecine, l'Agriculture, le Commerce et les Artes.</em> 12: 338-354., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23002019 [details] OpenAccess publication
Note Great Britain  
From editor or global species database
type locality Great Britain [details]
Depth range intertidal to 46  
Depth range intertidal to 46 [details]

distribution North Atlantic amd Mediterranean  
distribution North Atlantic amd Mediterranean [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. Cirolana cranchii Leach, 1818. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118839 on 2025-07-09
Date
action
by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
van der Land, Jacob
2008-01-03 13:02:48Z
checked
Schotte, Marilyn
2010-02-04 05:38:34Z
changed
Bruce, Niel L.
2018-12-05 00:57:44Z
changed
Bruce, Niel L.
2019-06-24 11:44:12Z
changed
Boyko, Christopher B.

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Nomenclature

original description Leach, W. E. (1818). Cymothoadées, Cymothoadae. <em>In: F. Cuvier (Ed.), Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, dans Lequel on Traite Methodiquement des Differens Etres de la Nature, Consideres Soit en Eux-memes, d'apres l'Etat Actuel de nos Connoissances, Soit Relativement a l'Utilite qu'en Peuvent Retirer la Medecine, l'Agriculture, le Commerce et les Artes.</em> 12: 338-354., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23002019 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Conilera grampoides Gourret, 1891) Gourret, P. (1891). Les Lemodipodes et les Isopodes du golfe de Marseille. <em>Annales du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Marseille, Zoologie.</em> 4: 1-44. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Nelocira swainsoni Leach, 1818) Leach, W. E. (1818). Cymothoadées, Cymothoadae. <em>In: F. Cuvier (Ed.), Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, dans Lequel on Traite Methodiquement des Differens Etres de la Nature, Consideres Soit en Eux-memes, d'apres l'Etat Actuel de nos Connoissances, Soit Relativement a l'Utilite qu'en Peuvent Retirer la Medecine, l'Agriculture, le Commerce et les Artes.</em> 12: 338-354., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23002019 [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 315-321 (look up in IMIS) [details] 

Taxonomy

status source Bruce, N.L. & Ellis, J. (1983) <i>Cirolana cranchi</i> Leach, 1818 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) redescribed, with notes on its distribution. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology), 44, 75–84. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2292240 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source 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] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Depth range intertidal to 46 [details]

Spelling The original spelling used by Leach (1818, p. 347) was "Cirolana Cranchii." Under ICZN (4th edition, 1999) Article 33 and Article 33.4, the original name cranchii is correct. [details]

distribution North Atlantic amd Mediterranean [details]

type locality Great Britain [details]
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To Barcode of Life 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) 
To PESI 
To PESI (from synonym Nerocila swainsoni (Leach, 1818))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) 
To ITIS

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