original description
Grube, A. E. (1877). Anneliden - Ausbeute S.M.S. Gazelle. <em>Monatsbericht der Koniglich Preussischer Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.</em> 509-554., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35723826
page(s): 540 [details] 
redescription
Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2011). Revision of <i>Piromis</i> Kinberg, 1867 and <i>Pycnoderma</i> Grube, 1877 (Polychaeta: Flabelligeridae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2819(1): 1-50., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2819.1.1
page(s): 30 [details] Available for editors 
From editor or global species database
Grammatical gender Pycnoderma is neuter, as derma is neuter, hence Grube (1877) used the neuter suffix for the type species, Pycnoderma congoense. [details]