Mastodesmus
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Ordo: Diplopoda
Familia: Trichopolydesmidae
Name
Mastodesmus Carl, 1911 – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Diagnosis
20 segments (♂, ♀); pore formula normal, ozopores placed closer to lateral than to caudal margin of paratergite; ♂ vertex unmodified, paraterga almost missing and set low, 3 rows of long, curved, simple metatergal setae on unusually prominent tubercles; gonopod coxae modest (gonocoel not very deep), telopodites bipartite in distal half, well exposed, very simple; sph a simple exomere branch, sl a long, simple, caudal spine branching off from distal half of telopodite.
Type species
Mastodesmus zehntneri Carl, 1911, by monotypy.
Remarks
This monobasic genus strongly resembles Peronorchus and Nasodesmus, but seems to be sufficiently well defined.
