Published June 15, 2020 | Version v1
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Amphictene Lamarck 1818

  • 1. Departamento de Bioloxía, Universidade da Coruña, 15008 A Coruña, Spain.
  • 2. Deceased 9 May 2020. Former addresss: RORUM ehf., Brynjólfsgötu 5, 107 Reykjavík, Iceland.
  • 3. Departamento de Biología (Zoología), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain. & Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (CIBC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain.

Description

Genus Amphictene Lamarck, 1818 Type species and type locality

Amphictene auricoma Müller, 1776. Denmark; type probably lost or never designated (Holthe 1986).

Remarks

The genus is characterized according to Hutchings & Peart (2002) by having neurochaetal uncini with major teeth arranged in two rows. However, an examination of BIOICE specimens of A. auricoma suggests that this character could be reassessed (see Discussion below).

Notes

Published as part of Parapar, Julio, Palomanes, Verónica, Helgason, Gudmundur V. & Moreira, Juan, 2020, Taxonomy and distribution of Pectinariidae (Annelida) from Iceland with a comparative analysis of uncinal morphology, pp. 1-32 in European Journal of Taxonomy 666 (666) on page 5, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.666, http://zenodo.org/record/3899270

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Pectinariidae
Genus
Amphictene
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Terebellida
Phylum
Annelida
Scientific name authorship
Lamarck
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Amphictene Lamarck, 1818 sec. Parapar, Palomanes, Helgason & Moreira, 2020

References

  • Muller O. F. 1776. Zoologicae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum characteres, nomina et synonyma imprimis popularium. Hallageriis, Havniae, Copenhagen. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 13268
  • Holthe T. 1986. Polychaeta Terebellomorpha. Marine Invertebrates of Scandinavia 7, Norwegian University Press, Oslo.