Ophiuroidea

The 10th plate of Ernst Haeckels's 'Kunstformen der Natur' (1904)

Taxonavigation

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
Subclasses (2): Myophiuroidea – †Oegophiuroidea

Name

Ophiuroidea Gray, 1840

Uncertainties

Debate whether ophiuroids belong in Asterozoa (The Asterozoan Hypothesis).

References

Primary references

• Gray, J.E. 1840. Room II. pp. 57–65 in Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum. British Museum, London.

Additional references

• Alitto, R.A.S., Bueno, M.L., Guilherme, P.D.B., Di Domenico, A., Christensen, A.B. & Borges, M. 2018. Shallow-water brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from Araçá Bay (Southeastern Brazil), with spatial distribution considerations. Zootaxa 4405(1): 1–66. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4405.1.1 Reference page. 
• Barboza, C.A.M. & Borges, M. 2012. A checklist of the extant species of ophiuroids (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from Brazilian waters. Zootaxa 3447: 1–21. Preview Reference page. 
• Brogger, M.I. & O'Hara, T.D. 2015. Revision of some ophiuroid records (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from Argentina. Zootaxa 3972(3): 432–440. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3972.3.8. Preview (PDF). Reference page. 
• Boissin, E., Hoareau, T.B., Paulay, G. & Bruggemann, J.H. 2016. Shallow-water reef ophiuroids (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) of Réunion (Mascarene Islands), with biogeographic considerations. Zootaxa 4098(2): 273–297. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4098.2.4.Reference page. 
• Cecchetto, M., Alvaro, M.C., Ghiglione, C., Guzzi, A., Mazzoli, C., Piazza, P. & Schiaparelli, S. 2017. Distributional records of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic Ophiuroidea from samples curated at the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA): check-list update of the group in the Terra Nova Bay area (Ross Sea) and launch of the MNA 3D model ‘virtual gallery’. ZooKeys 705: 61—79. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.705.13712. Reference page. 
• Fatemi, Y. & Stöhr, S. 2019. Annotated species list of Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, with new records. Zootaxa 4711(1): 77–106. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4711.1.3 Reference page. 
• Fell, H.B. 1961. The fauna of the Ross Sea. Part 1. Ophiuroidea. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir. 18: 1-79, 19 pls. Internet Archive Reference page.  [as Ophiuroidea p. 24]
• Glück, F.U., Stöhr, S., Bochert, R. & Michael L. Zettler, M.L. 2012. Brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the continental shelf off Angola and Namibia. Zootaxa 3475: 1–20. Preview Reference page. 
• 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. 
• Lyman, T. 1878. Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae of the exploring voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, under Prof. Sir Wyville Thomson, F.R.S. Part 1. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 5(7): 65–168. BHL Reference page. 
• Lyman, T. 1879. Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae of the exploring voyage of H.M.S. "Challenger", under Prof. Sir Wyville Thomson, F.R.S. Part II. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 6(2): 17–84. BHL Reference page. 
• Lyman, T. 1880. A structural feature, hitherto unknown among Echinodermata, found in deep-sea ophiurans. Anniversary memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 1-12. BHL Reference page. 
• Lyman, T. 1882. Report on the Ophiuroidea dredged by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Reports of Science Research Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger. Zoology 5(14): 1–386. BHL Reference page. 
• McKnight, D.G. 2000. The marine fauna of New Zealand: basket-stars and snake-stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Euryalinida). NIWA biodiversity memoir ( 115 ).
• 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. 
• Smith, A.B., Paterson, G.L.J. & Lafay, B. 1995. Ophiuroid phylogeny and higher taxonomy: Morphological, molecular, and paleontological perspectives. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 114(2): 213–243. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1995.tb00117c.x Reference page. 
• Stöhr, S. 2011. New records and new species of Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from Lifou, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia. Zootaxa 3089: 1–50. Preview PDF
• Stöhr, S.; O'Hara, T.D.; Thuy, B. 2012: Global diversity of brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). PLoS ONE 7(3): e31940. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031940 Reference page. 
• Stöhr, S., Çinar, M.E. & Dagli, E. 2010. Brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the southern coast of Turkey (eastern Mediterranean): new records and revision of Amphiodia obtecta Mortensen, 1940. Zootaxa 2483: 45–57. Preview
• Thuy, B. & Stöh, S. 2011. Lateral arm plate morphology in brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea): new perspectives for ophiuroid micropalaeontology and classification. Zootaxa 3013: 1–47. Preview [erratum in Zootaxa, 3230: 68. (2012) Preview PDF]

Links

• Ophiuroidea in the World Register of Marine Species
• https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv17622994?spm_id_from=333.999.0.0

Vernacular names

беларуская: Афіуры
Deutsch: Schlangensterne
Ελληνικά: Οφιουροειδή
English: Brittle stars
suomi: Käärmetähdet
Bahasa Indonesia: Bintang ular
日本語: クモヒトデ
русский: Офиуры
தமிழ்: ஒடி நட்சத்திர மீன்
中文: 海蛇尾纲

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