Genus Paranesidea

1969 Paranesidea Maddocks: 39.

1995 Paranesidea Maddocks—Maddocks: 206

Species included. The genus Paranesidea should be restricted to a fairly short list of distinctive species inhabiting tropical coralline and phytal environments. The following list includes only named species whose soft parts have been described, at least in part, listed alphabetically by original binomen:

Paranesidea algicola Maddocks, 1969 (Nosy Be, Madagascar) Bairdia arostrata Kornicker, 1961 (Bahama Islands, Florida Keys) Paranesidea fracticorallicola Maddocks, 1969 (Nosy Be, Madagascar) Bairdia gigacantha Kornicker, 1961 (Bahama Islands)

Paranesidea harpago Kornicker, 1961 (Bahama Islands)

Paranesidea onslowensis Hartmann, 1978 (Northwest Australia) Paranesidea parva Hartmann, 1978 (Northwest Australia)

Paranesidea posidonicola Hartmann, 1979 (Southwest Australia) Paranesidea spongicola Maddocks, 1969 (Nosy Be, Madagascar) Paranesidea sterreri Maddocks in Maddocks & Iliffe, 1986 (Bermuda)

Comparative comments. Because the two available species of Paranesidea are represented by only three, poorly preserved, female specimens (Table 1), they contribute little to our existing understanding of the genus. Observations and comparisons, where possible, have been inserted above within the discussion of Bairdoppilata .