Genus Pteroeides Herklots, 1858

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• Pteroeides Herklots, J.A. 1858. Notices pour servir a l'étude des polypiers nageurs ou pennatulides. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 7: 1-31 [19].

  Type species:

   Pennatula spinosa Ellis, 1764 by subsequent monotypy, see Ellis, J. 1764. An account of the sea pen, or Pennatula phosphorea of Linnaeus; likewise a description of a new species of sea pen, found on the coast of South-Carolina, with observations on sea-p. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 53: 419-435 [434]; Herklots, J.A. 1858. Notices pour servir a l'étude des polypiers nageurs ou pennatulides. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 7: 1-31 [19].
• Penna Bohadsch, 1761 [invalid name; in part; non-binomial - name unavailable: work supressed by the ICZN].
• Godeffroyia Kolliker, R.A. 1869. Anatomisch-systematische Beschreibung der Alcyonarien. Erste Abtheilung: Die Pennatuliden. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 7, 8: (7)111-255 (1869), 487-602 (1870), (8) 85-275 (1872) [222].

  Type species:

   Godeffroyia elegans Kölliker, 1869 by monotypy.
• Pteromorpha Herklots, J.A. 1858. Notices pour servir a l'étude des polypiers nageurs ou pennatulides. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 7: 1-31 [18].

  Type species:

   Pteromorpha crispa Herklots, 1858 by monotypy.
• Argentella Gray, J.E. 1870. Catalogue of the sea-pens or Pennatulariidae in the collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum 40 pp. [22].

  Type species:

   Pteroeides elegans Herklots, 1858 by monotypy.
• Crispella Gray, J.E. 1870. Catalogue of the sea-pens or Pennatulariidae in the collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum 40 pp. [25].

  Type species:

   Pteroeides sieboldii Herklots, 1858 by monotypy.
• Struthiopteron Broch, H. 1910. Diagnoservon neuen oder weniger bekannten Pennatulida. Zoologischer Anzeiger 36: 60-63 [63].

  Type species:

   Struthiopteron elegans Broch, 1910 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Williams, G.C. 1995. Living genera of sea pens (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Pennatulacea): illustrated key and synopses. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 113: 93-140 [130]

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