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

Sphaeroma Bosc, 1801

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Sphaeroma*	Latreille, 1802	synonym
*Spheroma*	Bosc, 1801	synonym

Children

Sphaeroma boryi Guérin, 1832
Sphaeroma dumerilii Leach, 1818
Sphaeroma emarginatum Grube, 1864
Sphaeroma laevigatum Philippi, 1860
Sphaeroma podicipitis Monod, 1931
Sphaeroma prideauxianum Leach, 1818
Sphaeroma serratum (J. C. Fabricius, 1787)
Sphaeroma venustissimum Monod, 1931
Sphaeroma walkeri Stebbing, 1905

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: コツブムシ

Literature

original description	Bosc, L.A.G. (1801). Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés Contenant leur Description et leurs Moeurs; avec Figures Dessinées, d'Après Nature. Tome second. Paris: Chez Deterville. 1–296, pls. 6–18.

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. Sphaeroma Bosc, 1801. 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:955716