Genus Lepidasthenia Malmgren, 1867

* Lepidasthenia elegans (Grube, 1840)

DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.

LITERATURE RECORDS: Grube 1840, 1861; Lorenz 1863; Grube 1864; Karl 1871; Stossich 1876, 1883; Carus 1884; Graeffe 1905; Santucci 1922; Vatova 1928; Fauvel 1934; Meštrov 1957; Banse 1970; Amoureux & Katzmann 1971; Katzmann 1972; Marcuzzi 1972; Matjašić & Štirn 1975; Amoureux 1983c; Gherardi et al. 1993; Požar-Domac 1994; Barnich & Fiege 2003; Castelli et al. 2008.

OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Polynoe elegans Grube, 1840; Polynoe lamprophthalma Marenzeler, 1874 .