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 Desmosomatinae

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 Videnskabs-selskabet i Christiania. 1863: 205-221.
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].

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. Desmosoma G. O. Sars, 1864. 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:118319