1910  Protocanites cf. Lyoni.-Spiegelhalter: 506, fig.1,2.
     1960  Protocanites supradevonicus abnobensis Vöhringer, 173, fig.52.
     1972  Eocanites abnobensis.-Weyer: 322.
     1983  Protocanites abnobensis.- Campbell, Brown & Coleman, p.111.
     1984  Protocanites firmus Sheng Huaibin: 286, pl.1 fig.1a-d
     1988  Protocanites firmus.-Liang & Wang: 557.
     1995  Protocanites abnobensis.-Ruan: 409,text-fig.1, pl.1 fig.14.
     1997  Becanites abnobensis.-Korn: 34.

Lateral lobes slightly pouched.

[Only holotype known, fragmentary].