Pentaceros Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829:30 Masc. Pentaceros capensis Cuvier 1829. Type by monotypy. Not preoccupied by Pentaceros Schulze 1760 or Schröter 1782 in echinoderms, both being nonbinominal; see Follett & Dempster 1963:328 [ref. 6569]. •Valid as Pentaceros Cuvier 1829 -- (Hardy 1983:197 [ref. 5385], Mochizuki in Masuda et al. 1984:189 [ref. 6441], Heemstra 1986:623 [ref. 5660], Parin & Kotlyar 1988 [ref. 13518], Gomon et al. 1994:634 [ref. 22532], Mundy & Moser 1997:241 [ref. 23514], Bray et al. 2006:1314 [ref. 29091], Gomon 2008:615 [ref. 30616], Kim 2012:88, 94 [ref. 32039], Trnski 2015:1311 [ref. 34198], Bae et al. 2018:[1] [ref. 35744], Fricke et al. 2018:243 [ref. 35805], Brown et al. 2019:176 [ref. 36444]). Current status: Valid as Pentaceros Cuvier 1829. Pentacerotidae: Pentacerotinae.