Genus Sphaeroma Bosc, 1802
- Sphaeroma Bosc, L.A.G. 1802. Histoire naturelle des Crustacés &c. In, Buffon, G.L.L. de (ed.). Histoire Naturelle de Buffon, classée d'après le système de Linné par R.R. Castel (Suites). Paris : Publisher unknown Vol. 2 80 pp. [48] [sometimes attributed to Latreille (1802), see Jacobs, B.J.M. & Holthuis, L.B. 1988. Sphaeroma hookeri Leach, 1814 (currently Lekanesphaera hookeri; Crustacea, Isopoda): proposed conservation of the specific name. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 45: 21–24].
Type species:
Oniscus serratus Fabricius, 1787 by subsequent designation, see Latreille, P.A. 1810. Considération Générales sur l'Order Naturel des Animaux Composant les Classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes; avec un Tableau Méthodique de leurs Genres Disposés en Familles. Paris : F. Schoell viii 444 pp. [this work is the subject of Opinions 11 and 136, ICZN, and is on the Official List of Works approved as available for Zoological Nomenclature].Secondary source:
Jacobs, B.J.M. & Holthuis, L.B. 1988. Sphaeroma hookeri Leach, 1814 (currently Lekanesphaera hookeri; Crustacea, Isopoda): proposed conservation of the specific name. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 45: 21-24; Jacobs, B.J.M. & Holthuis, L.B. 1988. Sphaeroma hookeri Leach, 1814 (currently Lekanesphaera hookeri; Crustacea, Isopoda): proposed conservation of the specific name. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 45: 21-24.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Cosmopolitan except for polar regions.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast, Tas. Coast
Distribution References
- Harrison, K. & Holdich, D.M. 1984. Hemibranchiate sphaeromatids (Crustacea: Isopoda) from Queensland, Australia, with a world-wide review of the genera discussed. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 81: 275-387
- Jacobs, B.J.M. 1987. A taxonomic revision of the European, Mediterranean and NW African species generally placed in Sphaeroma Bosc, 1802 (Isopoda: Flabellifera: Sphaeromatidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 238: 1-71
History of changes
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