Ampharete Malmgren, 1866

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.