original description
(of Spheroma chilensis Dana, 1853) Dana, J. D. (1852-1853). Crustacea. Part II. <em>United States Exploring Expedition. During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the Command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N.</em> 14:691-1618., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40412910 [details]
basis of record
Hurley, D. E.; Jansen, K. P. (1977). The marine fauna of New Zealand: family Sphaeromatidae (Crustacea Isopoda Flabellifera. <em>New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir.</em> 63: 1-83, pls. 1-11. [details] Available for editors
additional source
Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy The name has at times been synonymised with Exosphaeroma gigas, but there is no evidence to support this. New Zealand material under that name is not E. chilensis. [details]