WoRMS taxon details
Exosphaeroma aphrodita Boone, 1923
257017 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:257017)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Boone, P.L. (1923). New marine tanaid and isopod Crustacea from California. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 36: 147-156., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34510676 [details]
Note Scripps Institute pier pilings, La Jolla,...
From editor or global species database
Type locality Scripps Institute pier pilings, La Jolla, California, San Diego County, California, USA [details]
Depth range shallow
Depth range shallow [details]
Boyko, C.B.; Campos-Filho, I.S.; Hadfield, K.A.; Hughes, T.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Exosphaeroma aphrodita Boone, 1923. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=257017 on 2025-09-12
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Nomenclature
original description
Boone, P.L. (1923). New marine tanaid and isopod Crustacea from California. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 36: 147-156., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34510676 [details]
basis of record Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25]. [details]
basis of record Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25]. [details]
Taxonomy
status source
Bruce, N.L. (2003). New genera and species of sphaeromatid isopod crustaceans from Australian marine coastal waters. <em>Memoirs of Museum of Victoria.</em> 60(2): 309-369. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors 
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additional source
Wall, A.; Bruce, N.; Wetzer, R. (2015). Status of <I>Exosphaeroma amplicauda</I> (Stimpson, 1857), <I>E. aphrodita</I> (Boone, 1923) and description of three new species (Crustacea, Isopoda, Sphaeromatidae) from the north-eastern Pacific. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 504: 11-58., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.504.8049
note: Lectotype designation and redescription [details]
note: Lectotype designation and redescription [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
