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

Desmosoma tetarta (Hessler, 1970)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Desmosoma*	G.O. Sars, 1864	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Hessler, R. (1970) The Desmosomatidae (Isopoda, Asellota) of the Gay Head-Bermuda Transect. Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography 15: 1-185.
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.
source of synonymy	Brix, S. (2007). Four new species of Desmosomatidae Sars, 1897 (Crustacea : Isopoda) from the deep sea of the Angola Basin. Marine Biology Research 3(4): 205-230.

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Citation

Wilson, George D.F.; Schotte, M. (2014). Desmosoma tetarta (Hessler, 1970). 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:118560