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).