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

Chelator Hessler, 1970

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Chelator chelatus (Stephensen, 1915)
Chelator stellae Malyutina & Kussakin, 1996
Chelator striatus (Menzies, 1962)
Chelator verecundus Hessler, 1970
Chelator vulgaris Hessler, 1970

Literature

original description	Hessler, R. R. (1970). The Desmosomatidae (Isopoda: Asellota) of the Gay Head - Bermuda Transect. Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. 15: 1-185.
basis of record	van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 315-321
additional source	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].
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
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.
identification resource	Golovan, O. A. (2015). Desmosomatidae (Isopoda: Asellota) from the abyssal plain to the east of the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench: New data on diversity with the description of two new species. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 111: 256-278.

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. Chelator Hessler, 1970. 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:118317