Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of New Zealand Burrowing Isopod being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Gnorimosphaeroma noblei
- Sphaeroma quadridentatum
- Gnorimosphaeroma oregonense
- Sphaeroma papillae
- Sphaeroma serratum
- Cymodoce truncata
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Isopoda
- Family
- Sphaeromatidae
- Genus
- Sphaeroma
- Species
- Sphaeroma quoianum
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