Lirceolus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Peracarida
Ordo: Isopoda
Subordo: Asellota
Superfamilia: Aselloidea

Familia: Asellidae
Genus: Lirceolus
Species (6): L. bisetus – L. cocytus – L. hardeni – L. nidulus – L. pilus – L. smithii
L. cocytus - L. hardeni -

Name

Lirceolus Bowman & Longley, 1976
Type species: Caecidotea smithii Ulrich, 1902
Fixation: original designation [see p. 490] [and monotypy]

References
Primary references

Bowman, T.E. & Longley, G. 1976. Redescription and assignment to the new genus Lirceolus of the Texas troglobitic water slater, Asellus smithii (Ulrich) (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 88(45): 489–496. BHL Reference page. [first availability, see p. 490]

Additional references

Lewis, J.J. 1983: The assignment of the Texas troglobitic water slater Caecidotea pilus to the genus Lirceolus, with an emended diagnosis of the genus (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 96(1): 145–148. BHL Reference page.