Species Sphaeroma walkeri Stebbing, 1905

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Species Sphaeroma walkeri Stebbing, 1905

Sphaeroma walkeri Stebbing, T.R.R. 1905. Report on the Isopoda collected by Professor Herdman at Ceylon, in 1902. Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar … Part 4. Supplementary Report 23. 1-64, pls 1-12 [31].
Type data:
Syntype(s) not located at BMNH, Jokkenpiddi Paar, Marichchukaddi, Cheval Paar, Galle Harbour, and one other (unnamed) locality, Sri Lanka (as Ceylon).

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

India, Sri Lanka, Indian Ocean coast of Africa, Mediterranaen Sea, Caribbean Sea, Hawaii.

Introduced from unknown locality.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

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, NE coast

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, intertidal, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

On wood, but apparently not an active wood-borer.

General References

Carlton, J.T. & Iverson, E.W. 1981. Biogeography and natural history of Sphaeroma walkeri and its introduction to San Diego Bay, California. Journal of Natural History 15: 31-48 (distribution, biology)

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 (redescription)

Hutchings, P.A., van der Velde, J.T. & Keable, S.J. 1987. Guidelines for the conducting of surveys for detecting introductions of non-indigenous marine species by ballast water and other vectors – and a review of marine introductions to Australia. Occasional Report of the Australian Museum 3: 1-147 (introduction to Australia)

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 (redescription, ecology, distribution)

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	Action Date	Action Type
05-Aug-2022	04-May-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022	29-Jun-2010	MODIFIED
	29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED

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