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
John Cranch, a friend and employee of
William Elford Leach 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.[2][3] 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'.[4][5]
^[F.G. Cuvier] (1818). Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles... par Plusieurs Professeurs du Jardin du Roi, et des principales Écoles de Paris, Volume 12. Leach at pp. 347-352.
^Keith Harrison & Eric Smith (2008). Rifle-Green by Nature: A Regency Naturalist and his Family, William Elford Leach. pp. 401-403, 455. London: The Ray Society.
ISBN978-0-9-03874-35-9.
^Marilyn Schotte (2010). M. Schotte; C. B. Boyko; N. L. Bruce; G. C. B. Poore; S. Taiti; G. D. F. Wilson (eds.).
"Cirolana Leach, 1815". World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database.
World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
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
John Cranch, a friend and employee of
William Elford Leach 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.[2][3] 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'.[4][5]
^[F.G. Cuvier] (1818). Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles... par Plusieurs Professeurs du Jardin du Roi, et des principales Écoles de Paris, Volume 12. Leach at pp. 347-352.
^Keith Harrison & Eric Smith (2008). Rifle-Green by Nature: A Regency Naturalist and his Family, William Elford Leach. pp. 401-403, 455. London: The Ray Society.
ISBN978-0-9-03874-35-9.
^Marilyn Schotte (2010). M. Schotte; C. B. Boyko; N. L. Bruce; G. C. B. Poore; S. Taiti; G. D. F. Wilson (eds.).
"Cirolana Leach, 1815". World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database.
World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 10 November 2014.