Topic: Sphaeroma monodi
Several datasets have provided records of the marine isopod Lekanesphaera monodi (Arcangeli), which NBN considers to be the current name for Sphaeroma monodi Bocquet, Hoestlandt & Levi, 1954. However, Jacobs 1987 revision of European Sphaeroma says these two are not synonyms. He gives Sphaeroma monodi Bocquet, Hoestlandt & Levi as a junior synonym of Lekanesphaera levii and says Lekanesphaera monodi (Arcangeli) is found in the Mediterranean, Adriatic and black Seas.
So should Lekanesphaera monodi (Arcangeli) be on the British list? Should all its records be transferred to L. levii?
If you put Jacobs Sphaeroma into Google Scholar it brings up the revision.
John Bratton