Ophiopyrgus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophiurina

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Cryptosyringida Classis: Ophiuroidea Subclasse: Myophiuroidea Infraclasse: Metophiurida Superordo: Euryophiurida Ordo: Ophiurida Subordo: Ophiurina

Familia: Ophiopyrgidae
Genus: Ophiopyrgus
Species (12): O. alcocki – O. australis – O. bakeri – O. hainesae – O. latro – O. liberata – O. planulatus – O. prisca – O. solida – O. spatulifera – O. turritus – O. wyvillethomsoni

• Transferred to other genera (4): O. biocalae – O. depressus – O. saccharatus – O. trispinosus
  

Name

Ophiopyrgus Lyman, 1878

• ZooBank: 04AD026C-C557-4187-B1E5-AAC19A1802F2

• Type species: Ophiopyrgus wyvillethomsoni Lyman, 1878, by monotypy.

Synonymy

• Ophiopyrgus Lyman, 1878: 120–121; — Litvinova, 1984; — O’Hara et al., 2018: 10.

References

• Litvinova, N.M. 1984. A remarkable new species of the genus Ophiopyrgus (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea), with comments on this genus. Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal. 68: 1585–1588. 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. 
• 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. 

Links

• Ophiopyrgus Lyman, 1878 in the World Ophiuroidea Database, accessed on December 31, 2025

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