| Comaroma | |
|---|---|
 | |
| C. mendocino, adult female | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Anapidae |
| Genus: | Comaroma Bertkau, 1889 [1] |
| Type species | |
| C. simoni Bertkau, 1889 | |
| Species | |
6, see text | |
Comaroma is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the Anapidae family, first described by Philipp Bertkau in 1889. [2]
As of April 2019 [update] it contains six species: [1]
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Philipp Bertkau was a German zoologist born in Cologne.
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