Ophiuroidea

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]
Fernández, R.G. & Hooker, Y. 2020. Revisiting the diversity and distribution of the ophiuroids (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from Peru. Zootaxa 4766(4): 539–556. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4766.4.2 Reference page.
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]

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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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