Ophiuroidea

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

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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Subphylum: Eleutherozoa
Superclassis: Cryptosyringida
Classis: Ophiuroidea
Ordines: Stenurida - Oegophiurida - Ophiurida - Phrynophiurida

References

• De Moura Barboza, C.A.; Borges, M. 2012: A checklist of the extant species of ophiuroids (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from Brazilian waters. Zootaxa, 3447: 1-21. Preview reference page 
• Glück, F.U. et al. 2012: Brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the continental shelf off Angola and Namibia. Zootaxa, 3475: 1-20. Preview reference page 
• McKnight, D.G. 2000: The marine fauna of New Zealand: basket-stars and snake-stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Euryalinida). NIWA biodiversity memoir, (115).
• 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]
• Stöhr, S. 2011: New records and new species of Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from Lifou, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia. Zootaxa, 3089: 1–50. Preview PDF

Links

• Ophiuroidea in the World Ophiuroidea Database

Vernacular names

Bahasa Indonesia: Bintang ular
Deutsch: Schlangensterne
Ελληνικά: Οφιουροειδή
English: Brittle star
日本語: クモヒトデ
русский: Офиуры
suomi: Käärmetähdet

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