''Cirolana'' is a

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isopod Isopoda is an order of crustaceans that includes woodlice and their relatives. Isopods live in the sea, in fresh water, or on land. All have rigid, segmented exoskeletons, two pairs of antennae, seven pairs of jointed limbs on the thorax, an ...

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Names

Some of the species are named for people, as ''C. brucei'' for zoologist Niel L. Bruce, who has named many isopods; ''C. mercuryi'' for musician

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; ''C. cranchii'' for explorer John Cranch, a friend and employee of

William Elford Leach William Elford Leach Royal Society, FRS (2 February 1791 – 25 August 1836) was an English zoologist and marine biologist. Life and work Elford Leach was born at Hoe Gate, Plymouth, the son of an attorney. At the age of twelve he began a me ...

who first described the genus in 1818. The generic name Cirolana is an anagram of Carolina, named for an unknown woman called Caroline. Leach named a number of isopod genera with anagrams of Caroline or Carolina. In the French work in which Leach proposed these names he gave each new genus a French name as well as a Latin zoological name. Sometimes - as with ''Cirolana'' - it was the French name that was the anagram of Caroline; in this case 'Cirolane'.

Species

''Cirolana'' includes the following species: Subgenus ''Cirolana'' (''Anopsilana'') Leach, 1818 *'' Cirolana acanthura'' (Notenboom, 1981) *''

Cirolana aleci ''Cirolana'' is a genus of isopod crustaceans. Names Some of the species are named for people, as ''C. brucei'' for zoologist Niel L. Bruce, who has named many isopods; ''C. mercuryi'' for musician Freddie Mercury; ''C. cranchii'' for explorer ...

'' (Brusca, Wetzer & France, 1995) *'' Cirolana barnardi'' (Bruce, 1992) *'' Cirolana browni'' (Van Name, 1936) *'' Cirolana conditoria'' (Bruce & Iliffe, 1993) *'' Cirolana crenata'' (Bowman & Franz, 1982) *'' Cirolana cubensis'' (Hay, 1903) *'' Cirolana hirsuta'' (Yasmeen, 2005) *'' Cirolana jonesi'' (Kensley, 1987) *'' Cirolana lingua'' (Bowman & Iliffe, 1987) *'' Cirolana luciae'' (Barnard, 1940) *'' Cirolana magna'' (Ortiz, Lalana & Perez, 1997) *'' Cirolana marosina'' Botosaneanu, 2003 *'' Cirolana oaxaca'' (Carvacho & Haasmann, 1984) *'' Cirolana pleocissa'' (Botosaneanu & Iliffe, 1997) *''

Cirolana poissoni ''Cirolana'' is a genus of isopod crustaceans. Names Some of the species are named for people, as ''C. brucei'' for zoologist Niel L. Bruce, who has named many isopods; ''C. mercuryi'' for musician Freddie Mercury; ''C. cranchii'' for explorer ...

'' (Paulian & Delamare Deboutteville, 1956) *'' Cirolana pustulosa'' (Hale, 1925) *'' Cirolana radicicola'' (Notenboom, 1981) *'' Cirolana sinu'' (Kensley & Schotte, 1994) *'' Cirolana willeyi'' (Stebbing, 1904) (main genus) *'' Cirolana albida'' Richardson, 1901 *'' Cirolana albidoida'' Kensley & Schotte, 1987 *'' Cirolana aldabrensis'' Schotte & Kensley, 2005 *'' Cirolana arafurae'' Bruce, 1986 *'' Cirolana australiense'' Hale, 1925 *'' Cirolana australis'' Keable, 2001 *'' Cirolana avida'' Nunomura, 1988 *'' Cirolana bougaardti'' Kensley, 1984 *'' Cirolana bovina'' Barnard, 1940 *'' Cirolana brocha'' Bruce, 1986 *'' Cirolana brucei'' Javed & Yasmeen, 1995 *'' Cirolana bruscai'' Bruce & Olesen, 2002 *'' Cirolana canaliculata'' Tattersall, 1921 *'' Cirolana capricornica'' Bruce, 1986 *'' Cirolana carina'' Jones, 1976 *'' Cirolana carinata'' Yu & Li, 2001 *'' Cirolana chaloti''Bouvier, 1901 *'' Cirolana cingulata'' Barnard, 1920 *'' Cirolana comata'' Keable, 2001 *'' Cirolana cooma'' Bruce, 1986 *'' Cirolana coronata'' Bruce & Jones, 1981 *'' Cirolana corrugis'' Jones, 1976 *'' Cirolana cranchii'' Leach, 1818 *'' Cirolana crenulitelson'' Kensley & Schotte, 1987 *'' Cirolana cristata'' Bruce, 1994 *'' Cirolana curtensis'' Bruce, 1986 *'' Cirolana diminuta'' Menzies, 1962 *'' Cirolana dissimilis'' Keable, 2001 *'' Cirolana enigma'' Wieder & Feldmann, 1992 † *'' Cirolana epimerias'' Richardson, 1910 *'' Cirolana erodiae'' Bruce, 1986 *'' Cirolana fabianii'' de Angeli & Rossi, 2006 † *'' Cirolana fernandezmilerai''Ortiz, Lalana &Varela, 2007 *'' Cirolana ferruginosa'' Risso, 1826 *'' Cirolana fluviatilis'' Stebbing, 1902 *'' Cirolana furcata'' Bruce, 1981 *'' Cirolana garuwa'' Bruce, 1986 *'' Cirolana glebula'' Bruce, 1994 *'' Cirolana grumula'' Bruce, 1994 *'' Cirolana halei'' Bruce, 1981 *'' Cirolana harfordi'' (Lockington, 1877) *'' Cirolana hesperia'' Bruce, 1986 *'' Cirolana imposita'' Barnard, 1955 *'' Cirolana improceros'' Bruce, 1986 *'' Cirolana incisicauda'' Barnard, 1940 *'' Cirolana indica'' Nierstrasz, 1931 *'' Cirolana kendi'' Bruce, 1986 *'' Cirolana kiliani'' Müller, 1993 *'' Cirolana kokoru'' Bruce, 2004 *'' Cirolana kombona'' Bruce, 1986 *'' Cirolana lata'' Haswell, 1882 *'' Cirolana leptanga'' Bruce, 1994 *'' Cirolana lignicola'' Nunomura, 1984 *'' Cirolana littoralis'' Barnard, 1920 *'' Cirolana magdalaina'' Bruce, 1980 *'' Cirolana makikihi'' Feldmann, Schweitzer, Maxwell & Kelley, 2008 † *'' Cirolana manorae'' Bruce & Javed, 1987 *'' Cirolana mascarensis'' Müller, 1991 *'' Cirolana mclaughlinae'' Bruce & Brandt, 2006 *'' Cirolana meinerti'' Barnard, 1920 *'' Cirolana mekista'' Bruce, 1986 *'' Cirolana mercuryi'' Bruce, 2004 *'' Cirolana meseda'' Hobbins & Jones, 1993 *'' Cirolana mimulus'' Schotte & Kensley, 2005 *'' Cirolana minuta'' Hansen, 1890 *'' Cirolana morilla'' Bruce, 1986 *'' Cirolana namelessensis'' Brusca, Wetzer & France, 1995 *'' Cirolana nielbrucei'' Brusca, Wetzer & France, 1995 *'' Cirolana oreonota'' Bruce, 1986 *'' Cirolana palifrons'' Barnard, 1920 *'' Cirolana paraerodiae'' Müller & Salvat, 1993 *'' Cirolana parva'' Hansen, 1890 *'' Cirolana perlata'' Barnard, 1936 *'' Cirolana pilosa'' Yu & Li, 2001 *'' Cirolana pleonastica'' Stebbing, 1900 *'' Cirolana portula'' Bruce, 1986 *'' Cirolana quechso'' Bruce, 2004 *'' Cirolana rachanoi'' Bruce & Olesen, 2002 *'' Cirolana repigrata'' Bruce, 1994 *'' Cirolana rugicauda'' Heller, 1861 *'' Cirolana sadoensis'' Nunomura, 1981 *'' Cirolana saldanhae'' Barnard, 1951 *'' Cirolana similis'' Bruce, 1981 *'' Cirolana solitaria'' Bruce, 1986 *'' Cirolana somalia'' Schotte & Kensley, 2005 *'' Cirolana songkhla'' Rodcharoen, Bruce & Pholpunthin, 2014 *'' Cirolana stenoura'' Bruce, 1986 *'' Cirolana sulcata'' Hansen, 1890 *'' Cirolana sulcaticauda'' Stebbing, 1904 *'' Cirolana tarahomii'' Khalaji-Pirbalouty & Wägele, 2011 *'' Cirolana theleceps'' Barnard, 1940 *'' Cirolana transcostata'' Barnard, 1959 *'' Cirolana triloba'' Bruce, 1981 *'' Cirolana troglexuma'' Botosaneanu & Iliffe, 1997 *'' Cirolana tuberculata'' (Richardson, 1910) *'' Cirolana tuberculosa'' Bruce, 1986 *'' Cirolana tumulosa'' Holdich, Harrison & Bruce, 1981 *'' Cirolana undata'' Schotte & Kensley, 2005 *'' Cirolana undulata'' Barnard, 1914 *'' Cirolana vanhoeffeni'' Nierstrasz, 1931 *'' Cirolana venusticauda'' Stebbing, 1902 *'' Cirolana vicina'' Barnard, 1914 *'' Cirolana victoriae'' Bruce, 1981 *'' Cirolana wongat'' Bruce, 1994 *'' Cirolana yucatana'' Botosaneanu & Iliffe, 2000 *'' Cirolana yunca'' (Botosaneanu & Iliffe, 2000)

References

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