Metacirolana Kussakin 1979
Creators: name: Sidabalok, Conni M.
name: Bruce, Niel L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Isopoda
Cirolanidae
Metacirolana

description: Metacirolana ‘ serrata -group’
Metacirolana agaricicola Kensley, 1984a. Belize, coral reef, 1–20 metres.
Metacirolana agujae Müller, 1991. Columbia—Atlantic, coral reef, 17–19 metres.
Metacirolana anatola Bruce, 1986. Off Bowen, Queensland—Australia, 85–100 metres.
Metacirolana arnaudi Kensley, 1989. St. Paul and Amsterdam Islands—Southern Indian Ocean, 75–1680 metres.
Metacirolana bastenae (Bruce, 1980b). Coral Sea—Australia, coral reef, shallow.
Metacirolana calypso Brusca, Wetzer & France, 1995. Galapagos Islands—Ecuador, surface plankton over a depth of 2000 metres.
Metacirolana chemola Schotte & Kensley, 2005. Off Somalia, 59–70 metres.
Metacirolana fishelsoni (Bruce & Jones, 1978). Red Sea, coral reef, shallow water.
Metacirolana lombok sp. nov. Lombok—Indonesia, coral reef, intertidal to 10 metres.
Metacirolana menziesi Kensley, 1984a. Belize, coral reef, 5–18 metres.
Metacirolana mioskon sp. nov. Raja Ampat—Indonesia, coral reef, 10–20 metres.
Metacirolana nana (Bruce, 1980b). Chesterfield Reefs—Coral Sea, coral reef, shallow water.
Metacirolana pigmentata Müller & Salvat, 1993. French Polynesia, coral reef, 1–23 m.
Metacirolana rotunda (Bruce & Jones, 1978). East Africa to northern Red Sea, coral reef, shallow water.
Metacirolana serrata (Bruce, 1980a). Heron Island, southern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland—Australia, coral reef, shallow water. New combination by Bruce (1981a).
Metacirolana shijikiensis Nunomura, 2008. Shijiki Bay—western Japan.
‘rugose’ species —typically with wide body and with weakly vaulted dorsum, lacking chromatophores and pleon with ridges or longitudinal rows of large nodules.
Metacirolana costata Nunomura, 1999. Miyake Island—Japan, shallow water, intertidal.
Metacirolana mbudya Bruce, 1981b. Mbudya Island, 16 km north of Dar es Salaam—Tanzania, coral reef, shallow water.
Metacirolana rugosa (Bruce, 1980a). Tryon Reef, Capricorn Group, southern Great Barrier Reef—Australia, coral reef, shallow water. New combination by Bruce (1981a).
Ungrouped species (do not conform to either group above)
Metacirolana anocula (Kensley, 1984b). South Africa, 750 metres.
Metacirolana bicornis (Kensley, 1978). South Africa, 550 metres.
Metacirolana caeca (Hansen, 1916). North Atlantic, mesopelagic, lacks eyes, 1800 metres. Redescribed by Svavarsson & Bruce (2000).
Metacirolana convexissima (Kensley, 1984b). Indian Ocean coast of South Africa, 150–200 metres.
Metacirolana fornicata (Mezhov, 1981). North Central Pacific, 1930–1940 metres.
Metacirolana halia Kensley, 1984a. Belize, coral reef, intertidal.
Metacirolana hanseni (Bonnier, 1896). France, to 1000 metres.
Metacirolana japonica (Hansen, 1890). Japan, Peru, Sydney to Tasmania—Australia, shallow water to 450 metres. Redescribed by Bruce (1986).
Metacirolana joanneae (Schultz, 1966). California, USA, 218 metres.
Metacirolana mayana (Bowman, 1987). Yucatan—Mexico, eyeless anchialine cave species, previously placed in Bahalana Carpenter, 1981 and transferred to Metacirolana by Botosaneanu & Iliffe (2002).
Metacirolana monodi (Jones, 1976). Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles, coral reef, shallow water.
Metacirolana neocaledonica Bruce, 1996. New Caledonia, 1753–2049 metres.
Metacirolana ponsi Jaume & Garcia, 1992. Mediterranean, Balearic Islands—Spain, eyeless cave species.
Metacirolana riobaldoi (Lemos de Castro & Lima, 1976). Brazil, shallow water, similar in appearance to both M. halia and M. spinosa, in need of redescription.
Metacirolana spinosa (Bruce, 1980a). Heron and Lizard Islands, Great Barrier Reef—Australia and Bitung, Sulawesi—Indonesia (present study), intertidal.
description: Published as part of Sidabalok, Conni M. & Bruce, Niel L., 2018, Two new species and a new record of Metacirolana Kussakin, 1979 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from Indonesia, pp. 519-534 in Zootaxa 4370 (5) on pages 520-521, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4370.5.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1147327