We reviewed ampharetid genus
Anobothrus Levinsen, 1884 in China seas based upon material deposited in the Marine Biological Museum of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Qingdao). The genus includes
A. glandularis (Hartmann-Schröder, 1965),
A. gracilis (Malmgren, 1866),
A. mironovi Jirkov, 2008 and
A. nataliae (Jirkov, 2008).
A. glandularis and
A. mironovi are recorded for the first time in Chinese waters. A key to Chinese species of
Anobothrus is given.