Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Canalipalpata > Order Terebellida > Suborder Terebelliformia > Family Ampharetidae > Subfamily Ampharetinae

Amphicteis Grube, 1850

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Crossostoma Gosse, 1855 generic synonym

Children

Amphicteis gunneri (M. Sars, 1835)
Amphicteis midas (Gosse, 1855)
Amphicteis ninonae Jirkov, 1985
Amphicteis sundevalli Malmgren, 1866

Literature

original description

Grube, Adolf Eduard. (1850). Die Familien der Anneliden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin. 16(1): 249-364.

additional source

Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842.

additional source

Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 214-231.

additional source

Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series. 28:1-188.

additional source

Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].

source of synonymy

Imajima, Minoru; Reuscher, Michael; Fiege, Dieter. 2013. Ampharetidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Japan. Part II: Genera with elevated and modified notopodia. Zootaxa 3647(1): 137–166

taxonomy source

Schiaparelli, S.; Jirkov, I. A. (2016). A reassessment of the genus Amphicteis Grube, 1850 (Polychaeta: Ampharetidae) with the description of Amphicteis teresae sp. nov. from Terra Nova Bay (Ross Sea, Antarctica). Italian Journal of Zoology. 83(4): 531-542.

identification resource

Wang, Weina; Sui, Jixing; Li, Xinzheng; Hutchings, Pat; Nogueira, João Miguel de Matos. (2020). A new species of the genus Amphicteis Grube, 1850 (Annelida, Ampharetidae) from the Yellow Sea, China, together with a redescription of A. dalmatica Hutchings & Rainer, 1979. ZooKeys. 988: 1-15.

identification resource

Parapar, Julio; Helgason, Gudmundur V.; Jirkov, Igor; Moreira, Juan. (2011). Taxonomy and distribution of the genus Amphicteis (Polychaeta: Ampharetidae) collected by the BIOICE project in Icelandic waters. Journal of Natural History. 45(23-24): 1477-1499.

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Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Amphicteis Grube, 1850. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129156

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

EU Habitat Directive:
annex II EU Habitat Directive Annex II: Species of community interest whose conservation requires the designation of special areas of conservation.
annex IV EU Habitat Directive Annex IV: Species of community interest in need of strict protection.

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2020-06-05 by Geoffrey Read

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