original description
(of Pseudomesini Hansen, 1916) Hansen, H. J. (1916). Crustacea Malacostraca. III. V. The order Isopoda. <em>The Danish Ingolf–Expedition.</em> 3(5): iii+ 262 pp., 16 pls. [details]
original description
(of Desmosomidae G. O. Sars, 1897) Sars, G. O. (1896-1899). An account of the Crustacea of Norway with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Volume II. Isopoda. <em>Bergen Museum, Bergen.</em> i-x + 1-270, pls. 1-104., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32173012 [details]
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]. [details]
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. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 45(1): 7-61., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-014-0218-3 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Synonymy Desmosomidae - G. 0. Sars, 1897 : 118 (partim); Menzies, 1962a: 28; 1962b : 162.
Desmosomatini Hansen, 1916: 105-106; Nordenstam, 1933 : 254; H u l t , 1936: 1-2; 1937: 18.
Desmosomatidae Gurjanova, 1932 : 57; Birstein, 1963 : 89; Kussakin, 1965 : 117-118; Hessler, 1970 : 20; Svavarsson, 1984 : 42-43; Mezhov, 1986 : 186; Svavarsson, 1988 : 3-4. [details]
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