Lack of armature on the endopodites of pleopods 3-5. Frontal lamina poorly developed. Zoological Museum Amsterdam collection numbers 105.161-2. Length up to 10 mm, with the body 2.5 times as long as wide. Specimens were collected from a muddy hole filled with water in total darkness.
Tidal influence is presumed to be present.
The family Cirolanidae is considered the most primitive of the families of the suborder Flabellifera. Bahalana mayana , a new troglobitic cirolanid isopod from Cozumel Island and the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Carpenter, J.H. 1981. Bahalana geracei n. gen. Notenboom, J. 1981.