Desmosoma

This article is about the genus of crustaceans. For other uses, see Desmosome.

Desmosoma is a genus of isopods belonging to the suborder Asellota.

Desmosoma
illustration of Desmosoma lineare in An account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species, by Georg Ossian Sars (1837-1927)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Isopoda
Suborder:	Asellota
Superfamily:	Janiroidea
Family:	Desmosomatidae
Subfamily:	Desmosomatinae
Genus:	Desmosoma Sars, 1864
Type species
Desmosoma lineare Sars, 1864, by subsequent designation: Sars, 1897

Species

The Genus contains these 23 species:

• Desmosoma affine
• Desmosoma antarcticum
• Desmosoma australis
• Desmosoma brevipes
• Desmosoma dolosa
• Desmosoma elegans
• Desmosoma elongatum
• Desmosoma gigantea
• Desmosoma hesslera
• Desmosoma imbricata
• Desmosoma latipes
• Desmosoma lineare
• Desmosoma lobipes
• Desmosoma modestum
• Desmosoma ochotense
• Desmosoma pannosa
• Desmosoma puritanum
• Desmosoma renatae
• Desmosoma strombergi
• Desmosoma tetarta
• Desmosoma thoracicum
• Desmosoma tyrrhenicum
• Desmosoma zenkewitschi

Further reading

• Brix, S. (2007). Four new species of Desmosomatidae Sars, 1897 (Crustacea: Isopoda) from the deep sea of the Angola Basin. Marine Biology Research 3: 205–230.
• Hessler, R.R. (1970). The Desmosomatidae (Isopoda, Asellota) of the Gay Head-Bermuda Transect. Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography 15, 1-185.
• Sars, G.O. (1864). Om en anomal Gruppe af Isopoder. Forhandlinger i Videnskaps-selskabet i Christiania 1863: 205–221.
• Sars, G.O. (1897). An account of the Crustacea of Norway. Vol. II. Isopoda. Part VII, VIII. Desmosomidae, Munnopsidae (part). Bergen: 117–144, pl. 49-64.

External links

• Data related to Desmosoma at Wikispecies