Euryalidae

Euryale aspera

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Euryalida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Cryptosyringida Classis: Ophiuroidea Subclasse: Myophiuroidea Infraclasse: Metophiurida Superordo: Euryophiurida Ordo: Euryalida

Familia: Euryalidae
Genera (11): Asteromorpha – Asteroschema – Asterostegus – Astrobrachion – Astroceras – Astrocharis – Euryale – Ophiocreas – Squamophis – Sthenocephalus – Trichaster

Name

Euryalidae Gray, 1840: 63

Type genus: Euryale Lamarck, 1816.

Synonymy

• Asteroschematidae Verrill, 1899
• Asteroschematinae Verrill, 1899
• Astrocharidae Okanishi et al., 2011
• Astrocharinae Okanishi et al., 2011
• Euryalidea Gray, 1840
• Euryalinae Gray, 1840
• Trichasteridae Döderlein, 1911

References

Primary references

• Gray, J.E. 1840. Room II pp 57-65 In Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum Vol. 42. British Museum: London. BHL

Additional references

• Matsumoto, H. 1915. A new classification of the Ophiuroidea: with description of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 68: 43–92. BHL Reference page.  [as Trichasteridae p. 51–52]
• Goharimanesh, M., Stöhr, S., Mirshamsi, O., Ghassemzadeh, F., Adriaens, D. 2021. Interactive identification key to all brittle star families (Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea) leads to revised morphological descriptions. European Journal of Taxonomy. 766(1), 1–63. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.766.1483 Reference page. 
• Okanishi, M., O’Hara, T.D. & Fujita, T. 2011. A new genus Squamophis of Asteroschematidae (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea, Euryalida) from Australia. ZooKeys 129: 1–15. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.129.1202 . Reference page.  [as Asteroschematidae p. 3–5]
• Okanishi, M., O’Hara, T.D. & Fujita, T. 2011. Molecular phylogeny of the order Euryalida (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea), based on mitochondrial and nuclear ribosomal genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61(2): 392–399. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.07.003 Reference page. 
• Okanishi, M. & Fujita, T. 2013. Molecular phylogeny based on increased number of species and genes revealed more robust family-level systematics of the order Euryalida (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69(3): 566–580. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.07.021 Reference page. 
• Okanishi, M., Olbers, J.M., Fujita, T. 2013. A taxonomic review of the genus Asteromorpha Lütken (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Euryalidae). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 61(2): 461–480. ResearchGate Internet Archive Reference page. 
• O’Hara, T.D., Hugall, A.F., Thuy, B., Stöhr, S. & Martynov, A. 2017. Restructuring higher taxonomy using broad-scale phylogenomics: The living Ophiuroidea. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 107: 415–430. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.12.006 Reference page. 
• O’Hara, T.D., Stöhr, S., Hugall, A.F., Thuy, B. & Martynov, A. 2018. Morphological diagnoses of higher taxa in Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) in support of a new classification. European Journal of Taxonomy 416: 1–35. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.416 Reference page.