Spherillo misellus Budde-Lund, 1885
Schayer's slater
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Armadillo misellus Budde-Lund, 1885; Spherillo miselus Budde-Lund, 1885 (orthographic error)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: January 1843 or before
Distribution
Tasmania (=Van Diemen's Land), Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Budde-Lund, G. (1885). Crustacea Isopoda terrestria, per Familias et Genera et Species descripta. Hauniae.
Other references:
Budde-Lund, G. (1904). A Revision of 'Crustacea Isopoda terrestria' with additions and illustrations. Parts 2 & 3, pp. 32-144. Copenhagen: H. Hagerup.
Green, Alison J. A. (1961). A study of Tasmanian Oniscoidea (Crustacea: Isopoda). Australian Journal of Zoology 9(2): 258-366. https://doi.org/10.1071/ZO9610258 [Abstract]
Green, Alison J. A. (1974). Oniscoidea (Terrestrial Isopoda), pp. 229-249. In: Williams, W. D. (eds.). Biogeography and Ecology in Tasmania. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 25. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2337-5_10 [Abstract]
Green, Alison J. A. (2001). The riddle of Schayer's slater, Spherillo misellus (Crustacea: Isopoda). Invertebrata 20, July 2001, privately distributed.
Jeppesen, P. C. (2000). Catalogue of terrestrial isopod taxa and type material described by Gustav Budde-Lund (Crustacea: Isopoda). Steenstrupia 25(2): 221-265.
Poore, G. C. B. (2002). Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 19.2A Crustacea: Malacostraca: Syncarida, Peracarida: Isopoda, Tanaidacea, Mictacea, Thermosbaenacea, Spelaeogriphacea. (CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne; and Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS): Canberra.) [p. 301]
Schmalfuss, Helmut. (2003). World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, ser. A (Biologie), no. 654: 1-341.
Thomson, G. M. (1893). Notes on Tasmanian Crustacea, with descriptions of new species. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1892: 45-76.