Sphaeromatidae

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Sphaeromatidae
Gnorimosphaeroma oregonensis - o2.jpg
Gnorimosphaeroma oregonensis
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Superorder: Peracarida
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Sphaeromatidea
Family: Sphaeromatidae
Latreille, 1825
Genera

See text.

Lekanesphaera rugicauda ?

Sphaeromatidae (marine pillbug family) is a family of isopods, often encountered on rocky shores and in shelf waters in temperate zones.[1] The family includes almost 100 genera and 619 known marine species (and about 65 in fresh water). Within these genera, there are groups that share distinctive morphologies; further research may reclassify these genus-groups as separate families.[2]

Description[]

Many species have a dorsoventrally compressed body shape, often with a vaulted dorsum, and some are strongly flattened (scale-like).[2]

Sphaeromatidae are browsers or detritus feeders. Xynosphaera appear to have incisory mandibles,;[2] Xynosphaera colemani burrows into the tissue of alcyonacean corals.[3] Some genera of Sphaeromatidae associate with sponges, particularly .[4]

Genera[]

The family contains the following genera:[5]

  • Müller, 1995
  • Bruce, 1994
  • Amphoroidea H. Milne-Edwards, 1840
  • Baker, 1908
  • Bruce, 1994
  • † Novák, 1872
  • Barnard, 1920
  • Bruce, 2003
  • Wetzer & Bruce, 1999
  • Bruce, 1994
  • Sket & Bruce, 2004
  • Richardson, 1910
  • Bruce, 1994
  • Kussakin, 1967
  • Caecosphaeroma Dollfus, 1896
  • Harrison & Holdich, 1984
  • Leach, 1814
  • Richardson, 1906
  • H. Milne-Edwards, 1840
  • Whitelegge, 1901
  • Hansen, 1905
  • Hansen, 1905
  • Ceratocephalus Woodward, 1877
  • H. Milne-Edwards, 1840
  • Bruce, 1994
  • Whitelegge, 1902
  • Kussakin & Malyutina, 1993
  • Leach, 1818
  • Hansen, 1905
  • Kussakin & Malyutina, 1987
  • † Woodward, 1890
  • Bowman & Kuhne, 1974
  • Leach, 1814
  • Pfeffer, 1887
  • Baker, 1926
  • Bruce, 1995
  • Richardson, 1905
  • Bruce, 1994
  • Leach, 1814
  • Hansen, 1905
  • Richardson, 1905
  • Hurley & Jansen, 1977
  • Baker, 1908
  • Dynoides Barnard, 1914
  • † Iverson & Chivers, 1984
  • † Woodward, 1879
  • Messana, 1990
  • Baker, 1926
  • Holdich & Harrison, 1983
  • Exosphaeroma Stebbing, 1900
  • Menzies & Glynn, 1968
  • Gnorimosphaeroma Menzies, 1954
  • Kensley, 1987
  • Miers, 1884
  • Hansen, 1905
  • Schotte & Kensley, 2005
  • † Munier-Chalmas, 1872
  • Richardson, 1909
  • Racovitza, 1908
  •  [sv] Miers, 1876
  • † von Ammon, 1882
  • Bruce, 1993
  • Bruce, 2003
  • Bruce, 1992
  • Lekanesphaera Verhoeff, 1943
  • Hilgendorf, 1885
  • Bruce, 2005
  • Bruce, 1993
  • Maricoccus Poore, 1994
  • Sket, 2012
  • Monolistra Gerstaecker, 1856
  • Baker, 1908
  • Stebbing, 1893
  • Harrison & Holdich, 1982
  • Baker, 1926
  • Bruce, 1997
  • Baker, 1911
  • Nobili, 1906
  • Paracerceis Hansen, 1905
  • Stebbing, 1910
  • Harrison & Holdich, 1982
  • Javed & Ahmed, 1988
  • Buss & Iverson, 1981
  • Stebbing, 1902
  • Barnard, 1914
  • Bruce, 2003
  • Harrison & Holdich, 1982
  • Baker, 1926
  • Harrison, 1984
  • Holdich & Harrison, 1981
  • Bruce, 2009
  • † Bachmayer, 1949
  • Harrison & Holdich, 1982
  • Chilton, 1909
  • Holdich & Harrison, 1983
  • Chilton, 1883
  • Barnard, 1914
  • Sphaeroma Latreille, 1802
  • Holdich & Jones, 1973
  • Barnard, 1940
  • Glynn, 1968
  • Baker, 1928
  • Thermosphaeroma Cole & Bane, 1978
  • Eleftheriou, Holdich & Harrison, 1980
  • † Basso & Tintori, 1995
  • Baker, 1926
  • Bruce, 1994
  • Leach, 1818

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Poore, Gary CB; Lew Ton, Helen M; Bruce, Niel L. (2002). "Sphaeromatidae Latreille, 1825". In Poore, Gary C. B. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. 19. Csiro Publishing. p. 221.
  2. ^ a b c Poore, Gary C. B.; Bruce, Niel L. (September 2012). "Global Diversity of Marine Isopods (Except Asellota and Crustacean Symbionts)". PLOS ONE. 7 (9): e43529. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0043529. PMC 3432053. PMID 22952700.
  3. ^ Bruce NL (2003) New genera and species of sphaeromatid isopod crustaceans from Australian marine coastal waters. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 60: 309–370.
  4. ^ Bruce NL (1997) Order Isopoda. Sea Lice. In: Richmond MD, editor. A guide to the seashores of eastern Africa and the western Indian Ocean Islands: SIDA/SAREC. pp. 198–201.
  5. ^ Niel L. Bruce & Marilyn Schotte (2011). M. Schotte; C. B. Boyko; N. L. Bruce; G. C. B. Poore; S. Taiti & G. D. F. Wilson (eds.). "Sphaeromatidae". World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved August 31, 2011.

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