Type species: Amphicteis acutifrons Grube, 1860
Branchiosabella Claparède, 1863
Sabellides Milne-Edwards in Malmgren, 1866 Heterobranchus Wagner, 1885
Pterampharete Augener, 1918
Asabellides Annenkova, 1929
Pseudosabellides Berkeley & Berkeley, 1943 Parampharete Hartman, 1978
Generic diagnosis. Prostomium with middle lobe delimited by incision, without glandular ridges. Buccal tentacles pinnate. 4, or exceptionally 3, pairs of cirriform, or exceptionally pinnate, branchiae, all arising from fused segments II + III. Notochaetae in fused segments II + III absent or present in varying size from enlarged to regular notochaetae size. 11 or 12 thoracic uncinigers. Notopodial cirri absent. Elevated or modified notopodia absent. 2 intermediate segments. Glandular pads above neuropodia in intermediate and abdominal segments usually present. 1 pair of dorsal nephridial papillae in segment IV.