Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Isopoda > Suborder Asellota > Superfamily Janiroidea

Desmosomatidae G.O. Sars, 1897

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Pseudomesidae*	Hansen, 1916	synonym

Children

Balbidocolon Hessler, 1970
Chelator Hessler, 1970
Cryodesma Svavarsson, 1988
Desmosoma G.O. Sars, 1864
Disparella Hessler, 1970
Echinopleura G.O. Sars, 1897
Eugerda Meinert, 1890
Eugerdella Kussakin, 1965
Mirabilicoxa Hessler, 1970
Momedossa Hessler, 1970
Oecidiobranchus Hessler, 1970
Prochelator Hessler, 1970
Pseudomesus Hansen, 1916
Torwolia Hessler, 1970
Whoia Hessler, 1970

Literature

basis of record	Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley, and S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA.

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Citation

Wilson, George D.F.; Schotte, M. (2014). Desmosomatidae G.O. Sars, 1897. In: Schotte, M.; Boyko, C.B; Bruce, N.L.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S. & Wilson, G.D.F. (Eds) (2014) World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118250