Amphictene Savigny, 1822

Nogueira, João Miguel De Matos, Ribeiro, William M. G., Carrerette, Orlemir & Hutchings, Pat, 2019, Pectinariidae (Annelida, Terebelliformia) from off southeastern Brazil, southwestern Atlantic, Zootaxa 4571 (4), pp. 489-509 : 491

Genus Amphictene Savigny, 1822

Type species. Amphitrite auricoma Müller, 1776 , type by subsequent designation ( Hartman 1959).

Diagnosis. Pectinariids with both cephalic veil and margin of opercular lobe cirrate, scaphe well separated from abdomen, pectinate uncini with at least 2 longitudinal rows of nearly evenly-sized teeth and stout handle ( Hutchings & Peart 2002).

Remarks. Amphictene , Cistenides , Lagis and Petta were all considered as subgenera of Pectinaria in the past ( Hartman 1941; Day 1967; Holthe 1986a, b, except for Petta ), but Fauchald (1977), following Long (1973), raised all these subgenera to generic level, and that classification has been adopted in more recent papers ( Wolf 1984; Hutchings & Peart 2002; Sun & Qiu 2012; García-Garza & Leon-Gonzalez 2014; Zhang et al. 2015; Choi et al. 2017; Zhang & Qiu 2017).