Thalassophthirius Bartsch, 1988

Type species. Thalassophthirius auster Bartsch, 1988 .

Male. Male with GA by fusion of GP and AP. GO in ventral position, with 74 slender pgs arranged around GO and five to six sgs on each genital sclerite (Bartsch 1988c: fig. 1C). Number and arrangement of gac not known. Adults without epimeral pores.

Female and juveniles. Not known. Number of nymphal stages not known.

Remarks. A single specimen was extracted from a subtidal sample taken in the southern Atlantic Ocean, off South America (Bartsch 1988c).