Levinsen, 1883
Description:
Prostomium rounded, diamond-shaped, without antennae.
Peristomium limited to lips. Two long grooved palps present, but often lost in preserved material.
First segment with neuropodia and interramal cirri. Other parapodia biramous with notopodia distally narrowed into dorsal cirri, supported by aciculae, an interramal cirrus and neuropodia with flanged postchaetal lobes similar to those in spionids. Tentacular and ventral cirri absent. Chaetae all variously modified capillaries. Pygidium with multiple cirri.
After: Fauchald and Rouse, 1997.
The following species of this genus occur in the region:
Apistobranchus tenuis
Apistobranchus tullbergi