Corallanidae Hansen, 1890

Bruce, Niel L. & Sidabalok, Conni, 2011, The genus Lanocira Hansen, 1890 (Corallanidae: Isopoda: Crustacea) in tropical Australian waters, Zootaxa 2793, pp. 23-34 : 24

Family Corallanidae Hansen, 1890

Remarks. Delaney (1989) has given the most recent comprehensive revision of the family, together with a key to the genera of the family, and that work remains the primary source reference. The family is identified primarily by mouthpart characters (see for example Kensley & Schotte 1989; Bruce et al. 2002) and the genera may be identified using the key given by Delaney (1989).

All genera are distributed within the tropics and subtropics, with few exceptions. The genus Excorallana Stebbing, 1904a is restricted to the Americas and one record of West Africa ( Delaney 1989); the records of Nunomura (1988, 1994) are misidentifications of species of Tachaea Schioedte & Meinert, 1879 and Argathona Stebbing, 1905 , respectively.