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

Desmosoma G.O. Sars, 1864

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Desmosoma affine Fresi & Schiecke, 1969
Desmosoma atypicum Schiecke & Fresi, 1969
Desmosoma elegans Fresi & Schiecke, 1969
Desmosoma elongatum Bonnier, 1896
Desmosoma lineare G.O. Sars, 1864
Desmosoma puritanum Fresi & Schiecke, 1969
Desmosoma serratum Fresi & Schiecke, 1969
Desmosoma strombergi Svavarsson, 1988
Desmosoma tetarta (Hessler, 1970)
Desmosoma thoracicum Fresi & Schiecke, 1969
Desmosoma tyrrhenicum Fresi & Schiecke, 1969

Literature

original description	Sars, G.O. (1864). Om en anomal Gruppe af Isopoder. Forhandlinger i Videnskaps-selskabet i Christiania 1863: 205-221.
additional source	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). Desmosoma G.O. Sars, 1864. 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:118319