Halichondria variantia n.sp. Bowerbank, 1858: 327; Bowerbank, 1861a: 69.
Hymeniacidon variantia : Bowerbank, 1866: 174; Bowerbank, 1874: 84, 113, pls. XXXIII fig. 14, XLV figs. 32-34
Hymeniacidon varians (sic): Bowerbank, 1882: 85.
Desmacidon peachii n.sp. Bowerbank, 1866: 276; Bowerbank, 1874: 163, pl. LXIII figs 1-7; Bowerbank, 1882: 173.
Biemna peachii : Gray, 1867: 538; Topsent, 1913: 50, pl. IV fig. 3.
Asychus variantia : Gray, 1867: 539.
Desmacidon korenii n.sp. Schmidt, 1875: 117
Desmacella peachii var. stellifera n. var. Fristedt, 1885: 29, pl. II fig. 10.
Gellius capilliferus n.sp. Levinsen, 1886: 357, pl. XXX figs 7-10.
Desmacella peachii var. groenlandica n. var. Fristedt, 1887: 441, pl. 24 figs. 38-45, pl. 28 fig. 14
Desmacella capillifera : Lundbeck, 1902: 88, pl. XVI fig. 1.
Desmacella peachii : Lundbeck, 1902: 90, pl. IV figs 10-13, pl. XVI fig. 2.
Desmacella hamifera n.sp. Lundbeck, 1902: 93, pl. VII figs. 4-6, pl. XVII fig. 1.
Desmacella groenlandica : Lundbeck, 1902: pl. VI fig. 14, pl. VII fig. 7, pl. XVII fig. 2.
Desmacella variantia : Lundbeck, 1902: 98.
Biemna variantia : Thiele, 1903: 380; Burton, 1930a: 499, 522; Burton, 1931: 4; Brøndsted, 1932: 6; Topsent, 1932: 2; Arndt, 1935: 54, fig. 95; Alander, 1942: 66; Koltun, 1959: 96; Descatoire, 1966: 241, fig. 5B; Descatoire, 1969a: 192; Borojevic et al., 1968: 18; Van Soest and Weinberg, 1980: 4, fig. 5; Van Soest et al., 1981: 41; Ackers et al., 1985: 100, fig. 77; Solórzano, 1991: 31;
?Biemna corrugata : Stephens, 1912: 26 (not Halichondria corrugata Bowerbank)
Biemna variantia capillifera : Koltun, 1959: 97, fig. 52.
Biemna variantia groenlandica : Koltun, 1959: 98, fig. 53.
Desmacella variantia papillifera n.var. Koltun, 1958: 54.
Biemna variantia papillifera : Koltun, 1959: 99.
Further synonyms quoted by Arndt, 1935:
Amphilectus korenii
Biemna korenii
Biemna peachi var. stellifera
Desmacodes peachi
Raphiodesma aculeatum