Description

Diagnosis (according to Gruber & Martens 1968, slightly modified) Genus of Nemastomatidae Simon, 1872, with body length 1.5 – 2.5 mm, with scutum compositum; uniformly black or with silver or golden lateral spots. Pe with base perpendicular to dorso-ventrally flattened truncus, glans bilaterally symmetric or subsymmetric, without or with 1 – 8 pairs of lateral spines or denticles.

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Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Plantae

Phylum: Rhodophyta

Class: Florideophyceae

Order: Nemastomatales

Family: Nemastomataceae

Genus: Nemastoma

Species: Nemastoma