Galil & Clark, 1995
Carapace circular, bearing six tubercles centrally, regions undefined; front wider than orbit; lateral spine of carapace much longer than broad. Antennular fossae closed off from orbits. Chela with a mid-palmar stridulating ridge, which is parallel to lower margin; upper margin of palm cut into three teeth; no dactylar ridge in male, dactylus externally smooth. Carpus of fourth pereiopod unicarinate. Second abdominal segment carinate. (Türkay 1995)
Type species: Matuta inermis Miers, 1884.
Species treated:
Izanami curtispina (Sakai, 1961)