{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Exosphaeroma planum.jpg | image_caption = ''Exosphaeroma planum'' | taxon = Exosphaeroma | authority = Stebbing, 1900 | type_species = ''Exosphaeroma gigas'' | type_species_authority = (Leach, 1818) }}
'''''Exosphaeroma''''' is a genus of marine isopod of the family Sphaeromatidae. This genus is found in shallow ocean waters worldwide. It is notable for being one of the few genera of sphaeromatid to be found in the southern reaches of the Southern Ocean. The greatest diversity of ''Exosphaeroma'' occurs in the Southern Hemisphere.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wall |first1=Adam R. |last2=Bruce |first2=Niel L. |last3=Wetzer |first3=Regina |title=Status of ''Exosphaeroma amplicauda'' (Stimpson, 1857), ''E. aphrodita'' (Boone, 1923) and description of three new species (Crustacea, Isopoda, Sphaeromatidae) from the north-eastern Pacific |journal=ZooKeys |date=18 May 2015 |issue=504 |pages=11–58 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.504.8049 |pmid=26019675 |url=https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=5300&display_type=list&element_type=9|pmc=4443524 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
==Species== The following species are recognised in the genus ''Exosphaeroma'':<ref>{{cite WoRMS |author=Niel L. Bruce |author2=Marilyn Schotte |title=''Exosphaeroma'' Stebbing, 1900 |db=Isopod |id=118429 |access-date=23 January 2016}}</ref> {{div col|colwidth=24em}} *''Exosphaeroma agmokara'' <small>Bruce, 2003</small> *''Exosphaeroma alii'' <small>Baker, 1926</small> *''Exosphaeroma alveola'' <small>Bruce, 2003</small> *''Exosphaeroma amplicauda'' <small>(Stimpson, 1857)</small> *''Exosphaeroma antarctica'' <small>Richardson, 1906</small> *''Exosphaeroma antikraussi'' <small>Barnard, 1940</small> *''Exosphaeroma aphrodita'' <small>Boone, 1923</small> *''Exosphaeroma bicolor'' <small>Baker, 1926</small> *''Exosphaeroma brevitelson'' <small>Barnard, 1914</small> *''Exosphaeroma bruscai'' <small>Espinosa-Pérez & Hendrickx, 2001</small> *''Exosphaeroma chilensis'' <small>Dana, 1853</small> *''Exosphaeroma diminutum'' <small>Menzies & Frankenberg, 1966</small> *''Exosphaeroma echinensis'' <small>Hurley & Jansen, 1977</small> *''Exosphaeroma estuarium'' <small>Barnard, 1951</small> *''Exosphaeroma falcatum'' <small>Tattersall, 1921</small> *''Exosphaeroma gigas'' <small>(Leach, 1818)</small> *''Exosphaeroma hylecoetes'' <small>Barnard, 1940</small> *''Exosphaeroma inornata'' <small>Dow, 1958</small> *''Exosphaeroma kraussi'' <small>Tattersall, 1913</small> *''Exosphaeroma laevis'' <small>(Baker, 1910)</small> *''Exosphaeroma laeviusculum'' <small>(Heller, 1868)</small> *''Exosphaeroma media'' <small>George & Stromberg, 1968</small> *''Exosphaeroma montis'' <small>(Hurley & Jansen, 1977)</small> *''Exosphaeroma obtusum'' <small>(Dana, 1853)</small> *''Exosphaeroma octoncum'' <small>(Richardson, 1897)</small> *''Exosphaeroma pallidum'' <small>Barnard, 1940</small> *''Exosphaeroma parva'' <small>Chilton, 1924</small> *''Exosphaeroma paydenae'' <small>Wall, Bruce & Wetzer, 2015</small> *''Exosphaeroma pentcheffi'' <small>Wall, Bruce & Wetzer, 2015</small> *''Exosphaeroma planulum'' <small>Hurley & Jansen, 1971</small> *''Exosphaeroma planum'' <small>Barnard, 1914</small> *''Exosphaeroma porrectum'' <small>Barnard, 1914</small> *''Exosphaeroma rhomburum'' <small>(Richardson, 1899)</small> *''Exosphaeroma russellhansoni'' <small>Wall, Bruce & Wetzer, 2015</small> *''Exosphaeroma serventii'' <small>Baker, 1928</small> *''Exosphaeroma studeri'' <small>Vanhöffen, 1914</small> *''Exosphaeroma truncatitelson'' <small>Barnard, 1940</small> *''Exosphaeroma varicolor'' <small>Barnard, 1914</small> *''Exosphaeroma waitemata'' <small>Bruce, 2005</small> {{div col end}}
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Category:Sphaeromatidae Category:Isopod genera Category:Taxa named by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
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