Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Superphylum: Ecdysozoa
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Peracarida
Ordo: Isopoda
Subordo: Asellota
Superfamilia: Janiroidea
Familia: Desmosomatidae
Subfamiliae: Desmosomatinae - Eugerdellatinae - Incertae sedis
Name
Desmosomatidae Sars, 1897
Type-genus: Desmosoma Sars, 1864
Synonyms
* Pseudomesini Hansen, 1916: by Svavarsson, 1984
* Eugerdellatinae Hessler, 1970 (valid in subordinate rank)
References
* 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. (1897). An account of the Crustacea of Norway. Vol. II. Isopoda. Part VII, VIII. Desmosomidae, Munnopsidae (part). Bergen: 117-144, pl. 49-64.
* Svavarsson, J. (1984). Description of the male of Pseudomesus brevicornis Hansen, 1916 (Isopoda, Asellota, Desmosomatidae) and rejection of the family Pseudomesidae. Sarsia 69: 37–44.
