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

Lekanesphaera rugicauda (Leach, 1814)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Sphaeroma Bosc, 1801

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lekanesphaera*	Verhoeff, 1942	accepted genus name
*Europosphaera*	Verhoeff, 1942	synonym
*Europosphaera (Lekanesphaera)*	Verhoeff, 1942	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: kuglekrebs sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: oproller; ruwstaartige kogelpissebed

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	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].
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Rappé, G. (1989). Annoted checklist of the marine and brackish-water Isopoda (Crustacea, Malacostraca) of Belgium, in: Wouters, K.; Baert, L. (Ed.) (1989). Proceedings of the Symposium "Invertebrates of Belgium". pp. 165-168

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

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. Lekanesphaera rugicauda (Leach, 1814). 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:118958