Genus Scleronephthya Studer, 1887

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• Scleronephthya Studer, T. 1887. Versuch eines Systemes der Alcyonaria. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 53(1): 1-74 [20].

  Type species:

   Scleronephthya pustulosa Wright & Studer, 1889 by subsequent monotypy, see Wright, E.P. & Studer, Th. 1889. Report on the Alcyonaria collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 31: 1-314 [229-230].
• Stereacanthia Thomson, J.A. & Henderson, W.D. 1906. An account of the alcyonarians collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship Investigator in the Indian Ocean. Part 1. The alcyonarians of the deep sea. Calcutta : Trustees of the Indian Museum 132 pp. [13-15].

  Type species:

   Stereacanthia indica Thomson & Henderson, 1906 by monotypy.
• Paraspongodes Kükenthal, W. 1896. Alcyonaceen von Ternate. pp. 81-144 in Kukenthal, W. (ed.). Ergebnisse einer zoologischen Forschungsreise in den Molukken und Borneo, im Auftrage der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft ausgefuhrt von Dr. Willy Kukenthal, Teil 2, Band 1. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 23(1) [131-132].

  Type species:

   Paraspongodes crassa Kükenthal, 1896 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kükenthal, W. 1903. Versuch einer Revision der Alcyonarien 2. Die Familie der Nephthyiden. Zoologische Jahrbücher (Systematik) 19(1): 99-178 [140]
• Thomson, J.A. & Dean, L.M.I. 1931. The Alcyonacea of the Siboga Expedition with an addendum to the Gorgonacea. Siboga Expéditie Monographie 13(d): 1-227 [178]
• Utinomi, H. 1960. Noteworthy octocorals collected off the southwest coast of Kii Peninsula, middle Japan. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 8(1): 1-26, pls 1-2 [22]

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