Prostoma roseocephalum, Yamaoka, 1947

Kajihara, Hiroshi, 2025, A taxonomic revision of the freshwater monostiliferous hoplonemertean genus Prostoma Dugès, 1828 (Nemertea: Eumonostilifera): a radical solution or an over-lumping?, Zootaxa 5646 (4), pp. 451-500 : 480

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5646.4.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15819379
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scientific name	Prostoma roseocephalum
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Treatment

14. roseocephalum Yamaoka, 1947

Source. As the binomen Prostoma roseocephalum submitted by Okuda in Okada et al. (1947: 1469, fig. 4141 [1–4]), with Yamaoka attributed as the naming authority.

Type locality. Under stones and among algal holdfasta; Shimoda, Japan .

Etymology. Adjective, from roseus (“rosy”) and -cephalus (“headed”), indicating the reddish cephalic patch.

Remarks. Now Tetrastemma roseocephalum ( Yamaoka, 1947) ( Crandall et al. 2001) . Tetrastemma yamaokai Iwata, 1954 is its junior synonym ( Kajihara 2017).