Sphaeromatidae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Isopoda
- Family
- Sphaeromatidae
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Sphaeromatidae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Sphaeromatidae
Sphaeromatidae, the seapills, is a family of isopods, often encountered on rocky shores and in shelf waters in temperate zones. The family includes almost 100 genera and 619 known marine species (and about 65 in fresh water). Within these genera, there are groups that share distinctive morphologies; further research may reclassify these genus-groups as separate families.
...Sphaeromatidae in languages:
- English
- Typical Seapills
- French
- Sphéromiens
- German
- Kugelasseln
- Japanese
- コツブムシ科
- Korean
- 잔벌레과
- Swedish
- klotkräftor
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Amphoroidea
- Artopoles
- Bilistra
- Caecosphaeroma
- Campecopea
- Cassidias
- Cassidinidea
- Cassidinopsis
- Cerceis
- Cilicaea
- Cymodetta
- Cymodoce
- Cymodocella
- Discerceis
- Dynamene
- Dynamenella
- Dynameniscus
- Dynamenopsis
- Dynoides
- Exosphaeroides
- Exosphaeroma
- Geocerceis
- Gnorimosphaeroma
- Harrieta
- Haswellia
- Ischyromene
- Isocladus
- Juletta
- Lekanesphaera
- Makarasphaera
- Maricoccus
- Monolistra
- Neonaesa
- Oxinasphaera
- Paracerceis
- Paracilicaea
- Paradella
- Paraleptosphaeroma
- Parasphaeroma
- Parisocladus
- Platynympha
- Platysphaera
- Pseudosphaeroma
- Ptyosphaera
- Scutuloidea
- Sphaeramene
- Sphaeroma
- Sphaeromopsis
- Stathmos
- Striella
- Syncassidina
- Thermosphaeroma
- Zuzara































































































































































