Species Sphaeroma quoianum Milne Edwards, 1840

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sphaeroma quoiana Milne Edwards, H. 1840. Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 3 220 acompagnée de planches. [206].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, TAS (as Van-Diemen).
• Sphaeroma verrucauda White, A. 1847. List of the Specimens of Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) viii 141 pp. [102] [nom. nud.].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [292]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand, Pacific coast of North America (introduced).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

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, NE coast, Tas. Coast

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, intertidal, marine, wood-borer.

 

General References

Davidson, T.M. 2008. Prevalence and distribution of the introduced burrowing isopod, Sphaeroma quoianum, in the intertidal zone of a temperate northeast Pacific estuary (Isopoda, Flabellifera). Crustaceana 81: 155-167 (notes on US introduction)

Hale, H.M. 1929. The Crustaceans of South Australia. Adelaide : Government Printer Vol. 2 201-380 pp. (behaviour, habitat)

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 (distribution)

Hass, C.G. & Knott, B. 1998. Sphaeromatid isopod from the Swan River, Western Australia: diversity, distribution, and geographic sources. Crustaceana 71: 36-46 (record from WA)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022		04-May-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		29-Jun-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)