Based on material collected during the BIOICE project off Iceland, the taxonomy
and distribution of seventeen species (11 genera) of polychaetous annelids belonging to the
family Ampharetidae (Annelida; Polychaeta) is reviewed. Eleven of these species were pre-
viously reported in the area or nearby areas: Amage auricula, Anobothrus gracilis, Glyp-
hanostomum pallescens, Grubianella klugei, Lysippe fragilis, L. labiata, L. sexcirrata,
L. vanelli, Samythella elongata, Sosane bathyalis and S. wireni. Five species, Amage
benhami, Melinnampharete eoa, Noanelia hartmanae, Ymerana pteropoda and Zatsepinia
rittichae, either never or only once reported after original description, are redescribed or
discussed. A potentially new species, Amage sp., is described but not named because only
one specimen is present. Several body characters of high taxonomic relevance in Ampha-
retidae are reviewed using SEM. The distribution of each species off Iceland is provided
