Pabits Chamberlin, 1919

Buccal tentacles smooth. Oral membrane elongate. Prostomial dorsal glandular ridges absent. Branchiae 3 pairs. All branchiae similar, all smooth, none basally flanged. All branchial pairs arranged in a distinctly segmental fashion. Paleae on segment 3 absent. Nuchal (post branchial) hooks on segment 4 absent. Notopodia all similar. Notochaetae all smooth. Neuropodia present. Segments 3–6 without neurochaetae. Number of pairs of thoracic uncinigers 12. Abdominal notopodial rudiments present.

Description generated from: Hutchings, PA & Johnson, RT, 2003. Australian Ampharetidae (Polychaeta) DELTA database. In Wilson RS, Hutchings PA & Glasby CJ (eds) Polychaetes: Interactive Identification and Information Retrieval. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.

Additional references:
Chamberlin, RV. 1919. The Annelida Polychaeta. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 48, 1-514.;
Fauchald, K. 1977. The polychaete worms. Definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series 28, 1-188.