Genus Amphictene Savigny, 1822

Amphictene auricoma (O.F. Müller, 1776)

DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.

LITERATURE RECORDS: Grube 1861; Lorenz 1863; Grube 1864; Stossich 1876, 1883; Carus 1884; Fauvel 1934; Vatova 1935; Fauvel 1940; Vatova, 1943, 1949a; Laubier 1962; Scaccini 1967; Gamulin-Brida et al. 1968; Bellan 1969; Orel & Mennea 1969; Banse 1970; Karaman & Gamulin-Brida 1970; Zavodnik 1971; Katzmann 1972; Marcuzzi 1972; Katzmann 1973a; Legac 1974; Matjašić & Štirn 1975; Amoureux 1976; Vrišer et al. 1981; Zavodnik et al. 1981; Orel et al. 1982; Amoureux 1983a; Avčin & Vrišer 1983; Fassari 1983; Katzmann 1983; Del Piero et al. 1984; Zavodnik et al. 1985; Gillet 1986; Požar-Domac 1986; Zavodnik & Vidaković 1987; Aleffi et al. 1988; Orel 1988; Špan et al. 1989; Požar-Domac 1994; Castelli & Valentini 1995; Zahtila 1995, 1997; Zavodnik & Kovačić 2000; Crema et al. 2001; Kollmann & Stachowitsch 2001; Ceschia et al. 2002; Aleffi et al. 2003; Solis- Weiss et al. 2004; Boscolo et al. 2006; Simonini et al. 2007; Solis-Weiss et al. 2007; Castelli et al. 2008; La Porta et al. 2011; Mikac et al. 2011; Musco et al. 2011.

NEW RECORDS: BM11, BM12, BM13, BM14, BM17, BM18, BM19, BM20, BM21, BM22, BM26, BM27, BM28, BM33, BM38, BM39, BM40, BM44, BM45, BM46, BM47, BM48, BM50, BM52, BM53, BM54, BM65, BM66, BM71, BM91, BM92, BM97.

OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Amphitrite auricoma Müller, 1776; Pectinaria auricoma (O.F. Müller, 1776) .