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Exosphaeroma gigas (Leach, 1818) 
AphiaID: 118946

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Sphaeromatidea (Suborder) > Sphaeromatoidea (Superfamily) > Sphaeromatidae (Family) > Exosphaeroma (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Exosphaeroma Stebbing, 1900
Parent Exosphaeroma Stebbing, 1900
Synonymised
taxa
  Sphaeroma gigas Leach, 1818 (basionym)
Sources  original description: Leach, W. E. (1818) Cymothoadees. In F. Cuvier, Editor, Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, 12.Paris. [details]

basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 315-321 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley, and S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA., available online at http://invertebrates.si.edu/isopod/ [details]

additional source: Poore, G.C.B.; Bruce, N. (2009). Isopoda (Crustacea). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

Distribution European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Kerguelen Islands [details]
New Zealand [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Tasmania [details]
Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Isopod Collection
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118946
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-01-03 13:02:48Z  checked  Schotte, Marilyn
  
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  Citation: Schotte, M. (2013). Exosphaeroma gigas (Leach, 1818). In: Schotte, M.; Boyko, C.B; Bruce, N.L.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S. & Wilson, G.D.F. (Eds) (2013) World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118946 on 2013-05-25
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