Sphaeromatidae

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]

Sphaeromatidae
Gnorimosphaeroma oregonensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Isopoda
Suborder:
Sphaeromatidea
Superfamily:
Sphaeromatoidea
Family:
Sphaeromatidae

Latreille, 1825
Genera

See text.

Lekanesphaera rugicauda ?

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 Oxinasphaera.[4]

Genera

The family contains the following genera:[5]

  • Afrocerceis Müller, 1995
  • Agostodina Bruce, 1994
  • Amphoroidea H. Milne-Edwards, 1840
  • Amphoroidella Baker, 1908
  • Apemosphaera Bruce, 1994
  • Artopoles Barnard, 1920
  • Austrasphaera Bruce, 2003
  • Beatricesphaera Wetzer & Bruce, 1999
  • Benthosphaera Bruce, 1994
  • Bilistra Sket & Bruce, 2004
  • Botryias Richardson, 1910
  • Bregmotypta Bruce, 1994
  • Caecocassidias Kussakin, 1967
  • Caecosphaeroma Dollfus, 1896
  • Calcipila Harrison & Holdich, 1984
  • Campecopea Leach, 1814
  • Cassidias Richardson, 1906
  • Cassidina H. Milne-Edwards, 1840
  • Cassidinella Whitelegge, 1901
  • Cassidinidea Hansen, 1905
  • Cassidinopsis Hansen, 1905
  • Ceratocephalus Woodward, 1877
  • Cerceis H. Milne-Edwards, 1840
  • Cercosphaera Bruce, 1994
  • Chitonopsis Whitelegge, 1902
  • Chitonosphaera Kussakin & Malyutina, 1993
  • Cilicaea Leach, 1818
  • Cilicaeopsis Hansen, 1905
  • Cliamenella Kussakin & Malyutina, 1987
  • Cymodetta Bowman & Kuhne, 1974
  • Cymodoce Leach, 1814
  • Cymodocella Pfeffer, 1887
  • Cymodopsis Baker, 1926
  • Diclidocella Bruce, 1995
  • Discerceis Richardson, 1905
  • Discidina Bruce, 1994
  • Dynamene Leach, 1814
  • Dynamenella Hansen, 1905
  • Dynameniscus Richardson, 1905
  • Dynamenoides Hurley & Jansen, 1977
  • Dynamenopsis Baker, 1908
  • Dynoides Barnard, 1914
  • Eterocerceis Messana, 1990
  • Exocerceis Baker, 1926
  • Exosphaeroides Holdich & Harrison, 1983
  • Exosphaeroma Stebbing, 1900
  • Geocerceis Menzies & Glynn, 1968
  • Gnorimosphaeroma Menzies, 1954
  • Harrieta Kensley, 1987
  • Haswellia Miers, 1884
  • Hemisphaeroma Hansen, 1905
  • Heterodina Schotte & Kensley, 2005
  • Holotelson Richardson, 1909
  • Ischyromene Racovitza, 1908
  • Isocladus Miers, 1876
  • Juletta Bruce, 1993
  • Koremasphaera Bruce, 2003
  • Kranosphaera Bruce, 1992
  • Lekanesphaera Verhoeff, 1943
  • Leptosphaeroma Hilgendorf, 1885
  • Makarasphaera Bruce, 2005
  • Margueritta Bruce, 1993
  • Maricoccus Poore, 1994
  • Monolistra Gerstaecker, 1856
  • Moruloidea Baker, 1908
  • Naesicopea Stebbing, 1893
  • Neonaesa Harrison & Holdich, 1982
  • Neosphaeroma Baker, 1926
  • Oxinasphaera Bruce, 1997
  • Paracassidina Baker, 1911
  • Paracassidinopsis Nobili, 1906
  • Paracerceis Hansen, 1905
  • Paracilicaea Stebbing, 1910
  • Paradella Harrison & Holdich, 1982
  • Paraimene Javed & Ahmed, 1988
  • Paraleptosphaeroma Buss & Iverson, 1981
  • Parasphaeroma Stebbing, 1902
  • Parisocladus Barnard, 1914
  • Pedinura Bruce, 2003
  • Pistorius Harrison & Holdich, 1982
  • Platycerceis Baker, 1926
  • Platynympha Harrison, 1984
  • Platysphaera Holdich & Harrison, 1981
  • Pooredoce Bruce, 2009
  • Pseudocerceis Harrison & Holdich, 1982
  • Pseudosphaeroma Chilton, 1909
  • Ptyosphaera Holdich & Harrison, 1983
  • Scutuloidea Chilton, 1883
  • Sphaeramene Barnard, 1914
  • Sphaeroma Latreille, 1802
  • Sphaeromopsis Holdich & Jones, 1973
  • Stathmos Barnard, 1940
  • Striella Glynn, 1968
  • Syncassidina Baker, 1928
  • Thermosphaeroma Cole & Bane, 1978
  • Tholozodium Eleftheriou, Holdich & Harrison, 1980
  • Waiteolana Baker, 1926
  • Xynosphaera Bruce, 1994
  • Zuzara 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. Poore, Gary C. B.; Bruce, Niel L. (September 2012). "Global Diversity of Marine Isopods (Except Asellota and Crustacean Symbionts)". PLOS ONE. 7 (9). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0043529. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  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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