Cynogale Gray, 1837 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1836:88 [1837].
TYPE SPECIES: Cyongale bennettii Gray, 1837, by monotypy (Melville and Smith, 1987).
SYNONYMS: Lamictis de Blainville, 1837; Potamophilus Müller, 1838 .