Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > 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

*Desmosomidae*	G. O. Sars, 1897	synonym
*Pseudomesidae*	Hansen, 1916	synonym
*Pseudomesini*	Hansen, 1916	synonym

Children

Desmosomatinae G. O. Sars, 1897
Eugerdellatinae Hessler, 1970

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: デスモソーマ科

Literature

basis of record	Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25].
identification resource	Brix, S.; Leese, F.; Riehl, T.; Kihara, T. C. (2015). A new genus and new species of Desmosomatidae Sars, 1897 (Isopoda) from the eastern south Atlantic abyss described by means of integrative taxonomy. Marine Biodiversity. 45(1): 7-61.

Genbank

Citation

Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Desmosomatidae G. O. Sars, 1897. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118250