Genus Aglaura Péron & Lesueur, 1810

Aglaura Péron & Lesueur, 1810: 351;

type species Aglaura hemistoma Péron & Lesueur, 1810 by monotypy.

Lessonia Eydoux & Soulyet, 1852: 643; type species Lessonia radiata Eydoux and Soulyet, 1852 by monotypy; preoccupied by Lessonia Swainson, 1832 [Aves].

Stauraglaura Haeckel, 1879: 277; type species Stauraglaura tetragonima Haeckel, 1879 by monotypy; nomen dubium.

Diagnosis: Rhopalonematidae with slender gastric peduncle; with eight mobile, sausage-shaped gonads attached on peduncle and not on subumbrella; tentacles numerous, all alike; with pendant, club-shaped statocysts on bell margin.