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Taxa described in 1928

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Poecilosclerida
Poecilosclerida is an order of the demosponge class. It is the most speciose demosponge order with over 2200 species (World Porifera Database). It contains about 25 recognised families. They are characterised by having chelae microscleres, that is, the minute spicules scattered through the tissues, usually in the 10-60 μm range, have a shovel-like structure on the end.
Hydnangiaceae
The Hydnangiaceae are a family of fungi in the mushroom order Agaricales. Widespread in temperate and tropical regions throughout the world, the family contains about 30 species in four genera. Species in the Hydnangiaceae form ectomycorrhizal relationships with various species of trees in both coniferous and deciduous forests.
Cerochlamys
Cerochlamys is a genus of plants in the family Aizoaceae. They are all succulent plants, with fleshy, water-storing leaves. These plants bear small, somewhat daisy-like flowers, usually in shades of pink or purple. The genus is endemic to the southern Cape Provinces of South Africa.
Euconulidae
Euconulidae is a taxonomic family of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Trochomorphoidea.
Schizothyriaceae
The Schizothyriaceae are a family of fungi of uncertain ordinal placement in the class Dothideomycetes. It comprises 10 genera and around 70 species.
Rhabderemiidae
Rhabderemiidae is a family of sponges belonging to the order Biemnida.
Jupunba
Jupunba is a genus in the family Fabaceae. It is native to the tropical Americas, ranging from southern Mexico to the Caribbean, Central America, and tropical South America.
Sphalloeme
Sphalloeme is a genus of typical longhorn beetles in the family Cerambycidae. There are at least two described species in Sphalloeme.
Aspelta
genus of rotifers
Xenosciomyza
Xenosciomyza is a genus of flies belonging to the family Helosciomyzidae. The genus was first described by André Léon Tonnoir and John Russell Malloch in 1928.
Parasclerocheilus
Parasclerocheilus is a genus of worms in the family, Scalibregmatidae, first described by Pierre Fauvel in 1928.
Bogoriella
Bogoriella is a genus of crustose lichens in the family Trypetheliaceae.
Adelurola
Adelurola is a genus of parasitoid wasps in the family Braconidae.
Ctenella
Ctenella is a monotypic genus of stony coral in the family Euphylliidae. It is represented by a single species, Ctenella chagius. These corals are massive in size with meandering valleys between the calyces which have solid, non-porous walls and fine, evenly spaced, solid septae. They are found in the Indian Ocean being endemic to the Chagos Archipelago. It forms solid, smooth hemispherical domes.
Ponca
genus of insects