Cistenides Malmgren, 1865

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, European Journal of Taxonomy 666 (666), pp. 1-32 : 10

Genus Cistenides Malmgren, 1865

Type species and type locality

Sabella granulata Linnaeus, 1767 . Northern Europe; type never designated ( Holthe 1986).

Remarks

The diagnosis of the genus in Hutchings & Peart (2002) includes “... chaetigers 4 to 16 biramous with notopodia, neuropodia, notochaetae and neurochaetae, chaetiger 17 with notopodia and notochaetae only (17/13) …” and the presence of a single row of teeth on the uncini as well. Considering the last character, Hutchings & Peart (2002) transferred four species previously referred to Cistenides , namely C. aegyptia Savigny, 1822 , C. chilensis ( Nilsson, 1928) , C. gouldii Verrill, 1874 and C. regalis Verrill, 1900 , to the genus Pectinaria , because of having uncini with two rows of teeth, a character supposedly typical of this genus. We think that both characters could be reconsidered (see Discussion below).