WoRMS taxon details
Pectinariidae Quatrefages, 1866
Amphictenidae Grube, 1850 · unaccepted (supressed by ICZN Opinion 1225 (1982))
- Genus Amphictene Savigny, 1822
- Genus Cistenides Malmgren, 1866
- Genus Lagis Malmgren, 1866
- Genus Pectinaria Lamarck, 1818
- Genus Petta Malmgren, 1866
- Genus Cistena Leach, 1816 accepted as Pectinaria Lamarck, 1818 (subjective senior synonym, but was suppressed to maintain use of Pectinaria due to ICZN Opinion 1225)
- Genus Terebellum Montfort, 1810 accepted as Pectinaria Lamarck, 1818 (unaccepted > junior homonym, invalid due to homonymy, also synonym to Pectinaria)
- Genus Ariapithes Kinberg, 1867 (uncertain > nomen dubium, indeterminable)
- Genus Scalis Grube, 1846 (uncertain > nomen dubium, indeterminable)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Quatrefages, A. (1866). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <b>Volume 2.</b>. Première partie. 1-336. Deuxième Partie. 337-794. Explication des planches p.1-24. planches 1-20. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=M_xNAAAAcAAJ
page(s): 327 [details]
page(s): 327 [details]
![OpenAccess publication OpenAccess publication](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/openaccess.png)
WoRMS (2024). Pectinariidae Quatrefages, 1866. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=980 on 2024-08-25
Date
action
by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
db_admin
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
original description
Quatrefages, A. (1866). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <b>Volume 2.</b>. Première partie. 1-336. Deuxième Partie. 337-794. Explication des planches p.1-24. planches 1-20. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=M_xNAAAAcAAJ
page(s): 327 [details]
original description (of Amphictenidae Grube, 1850) Grube, Adolf Eduard. (1850). Die Familien der Anneliden. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin.</em> 16(1): 249-364., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6958350
page(s): 330; note: as "Amphictenea" [details]
taxonomy source Zhang, Jinghuai; Hutchings, Pat; Kupriyanova, Elena. (2019). A revision of the genus <em>Petta</em> Malmgren, 1866 (Annelida: Pectinariidae), with two new species from deep waters of southeastern Australia, and comments on phylogeny of the family. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4614(2): 303-330., available online at https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4614.2.3
page(s): 328; note: Report that a "COI-based phylogeny here does not support the monophyly of any of the five [Pectinariidae] genera (Amphictene, Cistenides, Lagis, Petta and Pectinaria) established based on morphologica...
[details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
additional source Vinn, Oleg; Luque, Javier. 2013. First record of a pectinariid-like (Polychaeta, Annelida) agglutinated worm tube from the Late Cretaceous of Colombia. Cretaceous Research 41: 107-110 [details]
identification resource Jirkov, I. A. and Leontovitch, M. K. (2013). Identification keys for Terebellomorpha (Polychaeta) of the eastern Atlantic and the North Polar basin. Invertebrate Zoology [aka Zoologiya Bespozvonochnykh]. 10 (2): 217 - 243., available online at http://www.nature.air.ru/invertebrates/10_2/invert10_2_217_243%20_irkov.pdf [details]
identification resource Nishi, Eijiroh; Matsuo, Kanako; Kazama-Wakabayashi, Maki; Mori, Atsushi; Tomioka, Shinri; Kajihara, Hiroshi; Hamaguchi, Masami; Kajihara, Naoto; Hutchings, Pat. (2014). Partial revision of Japanese Pectinariidae (Annelida: Polychaeta), including redescriptions of poorly known species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3895(3): 433-445., available online at http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3895.3.8 [details] Available for editors
[request]
identification resource Zhang, Jinghuai; Hutchings, Pat. (2019). A revision of Australian Pectinariidae (Polychaeta), with new species and new records. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4611(1): 1-70., available online at https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4611.1.1
page(s): 67; note: key for Australian species [details] Available for editors
[request]
identification resource Hutchings, Patricia A.; Peart, Rachael. (2002). A Review of the genera of Pectinariidae (Polychaeta) together with a description of the Australian Fauna. <em>Records of the Australian Museum,.</em> 54(1): 99-127., available online at http://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.54.2002.1356 [details] Available for editors
[request]
page(s): 327 [details]
![OpenAccess publication OpenAccess publication](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/openaccess.png)
original description (of Amphictenidae Grube, 1850) Grube, Adolf Eduard. (1850). Die Familien der Anneliden. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin.</em> 16(1): 249-364., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6958350
page(s): 330; note: as "Amphictenea" [details]
taxonomy source Zhang, Jinghuai; Hutchings, Pat; Kupriyanova, Elena. (2019). A revision of the genus <em>Petta</em> Malmgren, 1866 (Annelida: Pectinariidae), with two new species from deep waters of southeastern Australia, and comments on phylogeny of the family. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4614(2): 303-330., available online at https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4614.2.3
page(s): 328; note: Report that a "COI-based phylogeny here does not support the monophyly of any of the five [Pectinariidae] genera (Amphictene, Cistenides, Lagis, Petta and Pectinaria) established based on morphologica...
Report that a "COI-based phylogeny here does not support the monophyly of any of the five [Pectinariidae] genera (Amphictene, Cistenides, Lagis, Petta and Pectinaria) established based on morphological characters."
![PDF available PDF available](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/pdf_lock.png)
additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
additional source Vinn, Oleg; Luque, Javier. 2013. First record of a pectinariid-like (Polychaeta, Annelida) agglutinated worm tube from the Late Cretaceous of Colombia. Cretaceous Research 41: 107-110 [details]
identification resource Jirkov, I. A. and Leontovitch, M. K. (2013). Identification keys for Terebellomorpha (Polychaeta) of the eastern Atlantic and the North Polar basin. Invertebrate Zoology [aka Zoologiya Bespozvonochnykh]. 10 (2): 217 - 243., available online at http://www.nature.air.ru/invertebrates/10_2/invert10_2_217_243%20_irkov.pdf [details]
identification resource Nishi, Eijiroh; Matsuo, Kanako; Kazama-Wakabayashi, Maki; Mori, Atsushi; Tomioka, Shinri; Kajihara, Hiroshi; Hamaguchi, Masami; Kajihara, Naoto; Hutchings, Pat. (2014). Partial revision of Japanese Pectinariidae (Annelida: Polychaeta), including redescriptions of poorly known species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3895(3): 433-445., available online at http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3895.3.8 [details] Available for editors
![PDF available PDF available](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/pdf_lock.png)
identification resource Zhang, Jinghuai; Hutchings, Pat. (2019). A revision of Australian Pectinariidae (Polychaeta), with new species and new records. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4611(1): 1-70., available online at https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4611.1.1
page(s): 67; note: key for Australian species [details] Available for editors
![PDF available PDF available](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/pdf_lock.png)
identification resource Hutchings, Patricia A.; Peart, Rachael. (2002). A Review of the genera of Pectinariidae (Polychaeta) together with a description of the Australian Fauna. <em>Records of the Australian Museum,.</em> 54(1): 99-127., available online at http://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.54.2002.1356 [details] Available for editors
![PDF available PDF available](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/pdf_lock.png)
![](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/circle.gif)
![](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/circle.gif)
![](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/circle.gif)
![](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/circle.gif)
From editor or global species database
Identification : Key to genera, modified from Hutchings & Peart (2002):1 Cephalic veil cirrate. Scaphe distinctly separated from abdomen ................... 2
1. Cephalic veil smooth. Scaphe indistinctly separated from abdomen ............. Petta
2. Dorsal opercular rim smooth ................................................................................. 3
2. Dorsal opercular rim cirrate .................................................................................... Amphictene
3 Cephalic veil free. 13 biramous chaetigers ........................................................ 4
3. Cephalic veil laterally attached. 12 biramous chaetigers ................................. Lagis
4 Major teeth of uncini in 1 row ................................................................................... Cistenides
4. Major teeth of uncini in 2 rows................................................................................. Pectinaria
[details]
Phylogeny Zhang et al (2019) report that a COI-based phylogeny "does not support the monophyly of any of the five genera (Amphictene, Cistenides, Lagis, Petta and Pectinaria) established based on morphological characters." [details]