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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiuroidea 
AphiaID: 123084

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEchinodermata (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAsterozoa (Subphylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiuroidea (Class)
Authority Gray, 1840
Status accepted
Rank Class
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAsterozoa
Sources 
identification resource Paterson, G.L.J. (1985). The deep-sea Ophiuroidea of the north Atlantic Ocean. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 49(1): 1-162., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2273511 [details]

identification resource Fell, H.B. (1960). Synoptic Keys to the Genera of Ophiuroidea, Zoology Publications, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 26: 1-44, available online at http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Vic26Zool.html [details]

identification resource Koehler, R. (1904). Ophiures de l'expédition du Siboga. Part 1. Ophiures de mer profonde. In: Weber, Siboga Expeditie. M. E.J. Brill, Leiden. 45a, 1-176. [details]

identification resource Fell, H.B. (1961). The fauna of the Ross Sea. Part 1. Ophiuroidea. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 18: 1-79, 19 pls. [details]

identification resource Koehler, R. 1922. Ophiurans of the Philippine Seas and adjacent waters. Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin, 100(5), 1-486., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.32917 [details]

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Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Dutch Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorslangsterren  [details]
English Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorbrittlestarsChecked: verified by a taxonomic editorbrittle stars  [details]
German Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSchlangensterne  [details]
Japanese Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorクモヒトデ／蛇尾  [details]
Swedish Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorormstjärnor  [details]
Direct child
taxa (8)
[sort alpha..]		 Order Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEuryalida
Order Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiurida
Order Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiuroidea Incertae sedis

Order Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEuryalae accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEuryalida
Order Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGnatophiurida accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGnathophiurina
Family Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiocanopidae Mortensen, 1932 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiomyxidae Ljungman, 1867
Order Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiurae accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphiurida
Order Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPhrynophiurida (unaccepted, systematic revision)
Environment marine
Fossil range recent + fossil
Feedingtypes  carnivore [details]
deposit feeder: surface [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank  
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
Note 
From editor or global species database
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTaxonomy In the current Linnean system Ophiuroidea is regarded as a class. Following a more phylogenetic view its parent would be Asterozoa according to a popular hypothesis. However, according to another equally parsimonious view, Ophiuroidea and Asteroidea are not sister taxa, which invalidates Asterozoa as their parent. [details]
ImagesChecked: verified by a taxonomic editor 
Juvenile brittle-star
Juvenile brittle-star
St. Lawrence sea star poster
St. Lawrence sea star ...
Ophiuroidea
Ophiuroidea
Ophiuroidea sp.
Ophiuroidea sp.
Black coral diversity
Black coral diversity

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editor[show all]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123084
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hansson, Hans
2005-03-30 14:51:54Z  changed  Appeltans, Ward
2005-06-23 08:37:48Z  changed  Cuvelier, Daphne
2007-02-27 14:41:25Z  changed  Stöhr, Sabine
2009-06-22 07:47:14Z  changed  Stöhr, Sabine
  
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  Citation: Stöhr, S.; Hansson, H. (2009). Ophiuroidea. In: Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T. & Thuy, B. (Eds) (2017). World Ophiuroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123084 on 2017-09-20
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