Genus Vaunthompsonia Bate, 1858

Scorpionura. (J. Vaughn Thompson) W. Thompson, 1856, p. 394 (nomen nudum).— Bate, 1858, pp. 101, 102.

Vaunthompsonia Bate, 1858, p. 203.— Norman, 1863, p. 271.— Sars, 1879, pp. 13–22, figs. 23–26.— Calman, 1905, p. 17.— Zimmer, 1909, p. 4.— Stebbing, 1913, p. 9.— Zimmer, 1941, p.196.— Fage, 1951, p. 24.— Jones, 1960, p. 171.

Diagnosis. Uropod endopod with 2 articles, proximal article longer than distal one. Male with 5 pairs of pleopods. Type species: Vaunthompsonia cristata Bate, 1858 .

Caribbean species. Two species of the genus Vaunthompsonia were described from the Caribbean Sea, Vaunthompsonia floridana Băcescu, 1971 and V. budaii Petrescu, Chatterjee & Schizas, 2014 .