Deep-Sea taxon details
Metacirolana bicornis (Kensley, 1978)
256626 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:256626)
accepted
Species
Excirolana bicornis Kensley, 1978 · unaccepted (basionym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Excirolana bicornis Kensley, 1978) Kensley B. (1978). The South African Museum's Meiring Naude Cruises. Part 7. Marine Isopoda. Annals of the South African Museum, 74, 5, 125-157., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41212927 [details]
Note South Africa
From editor or global species database
type locality South Africa [details]
Depth range 550
Depth range 550 [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. Metacirolana bicornis (Kensley, 1978). Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=256626 on 2026-01-23
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Metacirolana bicornis (Kensley, 1978). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=256626 on 2026-01-23
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(of Excirolana bicornis Kensley, 1978) Kensley B. (1978). The South African Museum's Meiring Naude Cruises. Part 7. Marine Isopoda. Annals of the South African Museum, 74, 5, 125-157., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41212927 [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record 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]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record 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 Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
