Isopoda

WoRMS name details

Exosphaeroma alba Menzies & Glynn, 1968

257011  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:257011)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Malacostraca (Class)
  7. Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
  8. Peracarida (Superorder)
  9. Isopoda (Order)
  10. Sphaeromatidea (Suborder)
  11. Sphaeromatoidea (Superfamily)
  12. Sphaeromatidae (Family)
  13. Exosphaeroma (Genus)
  14. Exosphaeroma alba (Species)
uncertain > nomen dubium
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Menzies, R. J.; Glynn, P. W. (1968). The common marine isopod Crustacea of Puerto Rico: A handbook for marine biologists. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and other Caribbean Islands.</em> 27(104): 1-133. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Note Puerto Rico  
From editor or global species database
type locality Puerto Rico [details]
Depth range intertidal  
Depth range intertidal [details]
Boyko, C.B.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Exosphaeroma alba Menzies & Glynn, 1968. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=257011 on 2025-05-14
Date
action
by
2008-01-03 13:02:48Z
created
Schotte, Marilyn
2008-02-05 00:00:35Z
changed
Bruce, Niel L.
2023-03-22 12:27:37Z
changed
Boyko, Christopher B.

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Nomenclature

original description Menzies, R. J.; Glynn, P. W. (1968). The common marine isopod Crustacea of Puerto Rico: A handbook for marine biologists. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and other Caribbean Islands.</em> 27(104): 1-133. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

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  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Depth range intertidal [details]

type locality Puerto Rico [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (6 records) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 119353) 
To ITIS

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