Desmosoma

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
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Family: Desmosomatidae
Subfamily: Desmosomatinae
Genus:
Sars, 1864
Type species
Desmosoma lineare
Sars, 1864, by subsequent designation: Sars, 1897

Desmosoma is a genus of isopods belonging to the suborder Asellota.[1]

Species

The Genus contains these 23 species:[2]

  • 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

References

  1. ^ "Desmosoma | Taxonomy Browser | BOLDSYSTEMS". www.boldsystems.org. Retrieved 2024-09-15.
  2. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Desmosoma G. O. Sars, 1864". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2024-09-15.

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: 205โ€“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: 205โ€“221.
  • Sars, G.O. (1897). An account of the Crustacea of Norway. Vol. II. Isopoda. Part VII, VIII. Desmosomidae, Munnopsidae (part). Bergen: 117โ€“144, pl. 49-64.