Cirolanidae Dana, 1852

Bruce, Niel L. & Rodcharoen, Eknarin, 2023, Electrolana Schädel, Hyžný & Haug, 2021 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae), a Junior Synonym of Cirolana Leach, 1818 and a New Species of Metacirolana Kussakin, 1978 from Cretaceous Amber of Myanmar, Records of the Australian Museum (Rec. Aust. Mus.) 75 (4), pp. 405-412 : 406

Cirolanidae Dana, 1852

Remarks. Bruce et al. (2021), in synonymizing Obtusotelson Schädel, van Eldijk, Winkelhorst, Reumer & Haug, 2020 with Cirolana Leach, 1818 , gave a detailed stepwise account of how that identification to family was made. That is not repeated here in detail but in essence, the ambulatory pereopods 1–3 that lack a prehensile dactylus excludes all micropredator and parasitic families. The Corallanidae is excluded on several character states, including the pleonite 3 lateral margin being not posteriorly produced, pleonite 4 epimera posteriorly rounded, a proportionally narrower head than seen in cirolanids, and usually with abundant and often hyaline setae on the dorsal surface of the pleotelson and pleon and in some species variably over the pereonites.