“…The analysis was based on critical observations of features in most proteocephalidean genera studied by the present authors: A.A. Rego and A. de Chambrier in South America (see Rego et al, 1974;de Chambrier & Vaucher, 1984Rego, 1987Rego, , 1991Rego, , 1994de Chambrier, 1987de Chambrier, , 1988de Chambrier, , 1989ade Chambrier, ,b, 1990Rego & Pavanelli, 1990de Chambrier et al, , 1996de Chambrier & Paulino, 1997;de Chambrier & Rego, 1994Scholz et al, 1996) and V. Hanzelová & T. Scholz in the Holarctic (Scholz, 1989(Scholz, , 1991(Scholz, , 1993Scholz & Ergens, 1990;Hanzelová & Spakulová, 1992;Hanzelová & Scholz, 1992Scholz & Cappellaro, 1993;Scholz & Hanzelová, 1994;Hanzelová et al, 1995a,b;Scholz et al, 1995Scholz et al, , 1997.…”