Species Sphaeroma terebrans Spence Bate, 1866

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sphaeroma terebrans Spence Bate, C. 1866. Carcinological gleanings No. 2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 17: 24-31 [28].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Brazil.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Kenya, South Africa, Brazil, Atlantic coast of U.S.A.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), 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: Central E coast, Lower E coast, NE coast, NW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, intertidal, mangrove, marine, wood-borer.

 

General 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 (complete synonymy)

Ribi, G. 1981. Does the wood boring isopod Sphaeroma terebrans benefit red mangroves Rhizophora mangle? Bulletin of Marine Science 31: 925-928 (ecology)

Si, A., Bellwood, O. & Alexander, C.G. 2002. Evidence for filter-feeding by the wood-boring isopod, Sphaeroma terebrans (Crustacea: Peracarida). Journal of the Zoological Society of London 256: 463-471 (filter-feeding)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	ISOPODA Latreille, 1817	01-Aug-2018	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		04-May-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		29-Jun-2010	MODIFIED
		29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED