1929  Stenoclymenia Lange: 69.
     1934  Platyclymenia.- Schindewolf: 341.
     1937  Platyclymenia.- Schindewolf: 55.
     2002  Stenoclymenia.-Korn & Klug: 239 [assigned to Nodosoclymeniinae].
     2005  Stenoclymenia.-Nikolaeva & Bogoslovskii: 85.

Type species: Stenoclymenia stenomphala Lange, 1929, p.70; OD.
 
A:   Conch form discoidal with flattened venter; flanks flattened; umbilicus usually moderately wide, sometimes wide.
B:   Fine or coarse growth lines with prorsiradiate direction and concave-convex course; ventrolateral salient as long
      as wide; moderately deep external sinus.
C:   Usually without ribs; sometimes about 50 fine, simple ribs on flanks.
D:   No constrictions.
G:   Shallow, rounded ventral lobe (regarded as a secondary feature of later ontogenetic stages); symmetric, shallowly
       rounded lateral lobe.