Thermosphaeroma | |
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Thermosphaeroma thermophilum | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Superorder: | Peracarida |
Order: | Isopoda |
Family: | Sphaeromatidae |
Genus: | Thermosphaeroma Cole & Bane, 1978 |
Type species | |
Sphaeroma dugesi Dollfus, 1893
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Thermosphaeroma is a genus of crustacean in family Sphaeromatidae.[1] They occur exclusively in hot springs of southwestern United States and central Mexico.[2]
The genus contains eight species,[1] most of which are listed on the IUCN Red List (EW: extinct in the wild; CR: critically endangered; EN: endangered; LC; least concern; NE: not evaluated):
Species | Authority | Year | IUCN status | Distribution |
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Thermosphaeroma cavicauda | Bowman | 1985 | ![]() |
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Thermosphaeroma dugesi | (Dollfus) | 1893 | ![]() |
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Thermosphaeroma macrura | Bowman | 1985 | ![]() |
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Thermosphaeroma mendozai | Schotte | 2000[2] | ![]() |
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Thermosphaeroma milleri | Bowman | 1981 | ![]() |
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Thermosphaeroma smithi | Bowman | 1981 | ![]() |
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Thermosphaeroma subequalum | Cole & Bane | 1978 | ![]() |
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Thermosphaeroma thermophilum | (Richardson) | 1897 | ![]() |
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