Amphictene
Sign in to saveAmphictene is a genus of polychaete worms in the family Pectinariidae, first described by Marie Jules César Savigny in 1822. The type species is Amphitrite auricoma Müller, 1776, currently accepted as Amphictene auricoma (O.F. Müller, 1776).
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumAnnelida
- ClassPolychaeta
- OrderTerebellida
- FamilyPectinariidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 20
- With media
- 18
- Family
- Pectinariidae
- Collections
- USNM, CAS, ALMNH, NCSM, WAM, AM
- Recorded in
- United States, Philippines, Australia, China, United Kingdom
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- Parent taxon
- Pectinariidae
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- taxon name
- Amphictene
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- genus
- taxon author citation
- Savigny in Lamarck, 1818
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Amphictene is a genus of polychaete worms in the family Pectinariidae, first described by Marie Jules César Savigny in 1822. The type species is Amphitrite auricoma Müller, 1776, currently accepted as Amphictene auricoma (O.F. Müller, 1776).
==Species== Species accepted on WoRMS as of October 2023 are: Amphictene alata Zhang, Zhang & Qiu, 2015 Amphictene auricoma (O.F. Müller, 1776) Amphictene capensis (Pallas, 1766) Amphictene catharinensis (Grube, 1870) Amphictene cercusa Zhang & Hutchings, 2019 Amphictene crassa (Grube, 1870) Amphictene favona Hutchings & Peart, 2002 Amphictene guatemalensis (Nilsson, 1928) Amphictene helenae García-Garza & de Leon-Gonzalez, 2014 Amphictene japonica (Nilsson, 1928) Amphictene jianqingi Zhang, Hutchings & Qiu, 2022 Amphictene leioscapha (Caullery, 1944) Amphictene lizardensis Wong & Hutchings, 2015 Amphictene moorei (Annenkova, 1929) Amphictene souriei (Fauvel, 1949) Amphictene undulata Zhang & Hutchings, 2019 Amphictene uniloba Hutchings & Peart, 2002
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