Taxonomy, Systematics and biogeography of selected isopod taxa (Crustacea)

Taxonomy, Systematics and biogeography of selected isopod taxa (Crustacea)
Asellote Isopoda (Crustacea) are one of the most important and abundant macrofaunal groups in the deep sea. A high number of undescribed species (more than 80% of collected species are new) and low numbers of specimens per species is typical for abyssal plains. Species descriptions are a very important task to name the diversity of species found in the deep and to gain the basis for phylogentic analyses.

At the DZMB in Hamburg currently new species of the families Macrostylidae Hansen, 1916 and Desmosomatidae Sars, 1897 are in description.