Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Isopoda > Suborder Sphaeromatidea > Superfamily Sphaeromatoidea

Sphaeromatidae Latreille, 1825

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Sphaeromides*	Latreille, 1825	synonym

Children

Caecosphaeroma Dollfus, 1896
Campecopea Leach, 1814
Cerceis H. Milne Edwards, 1840
Cilicaea Leach, 1818
Cymodoce Leach, 1814
Dynamene Leach, 1818
Dynamenella Hansen, 1905
Dynamenopsis Baker, 1908
Exosphaeroma Stebbing, 1900
Ischyromene Racovitza, 1908
Lekanesphaera Verhoeff, 1942
Monolistra Gerstaecker, 1856
Paracerceis Hansen, 1905
Paradella Harrison & Holdich, 1982
Sphaeroma Bosc, 1801

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: コツブムシ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: klotkräftor

Literature

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
additional source	Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA). 124 pp.
additional source	Brandt, A.; Poore, G. C. B. (2003). Higher classification of the flabelliferan and related Isopoda based on a reappraisal of relationships. Invertebrate Systematics. 17: 893-923.
additional source	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].

Genbank

Citation

Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Sphaeromatidae Latreille, 1825. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118277

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Sphaeromatidae Latreille, 1825. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/7d374d14-505f-4354-97ec-342fa89ad37d