Ophiopyrgus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophiurina
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: Ophiurida Subordo: Ophiurina

Familia: Ophiopyrgidae
Genus: Ophiopyrgus
Species (9): O. alcocki – O. australis – O. biocalae – O. depressus – O. planulatus – O. saccharatus – O. trispinosus – O. turritus – O. wyvillethomsoni

Name

• Ophiopyrgus Lyman, 1878: 120
  • Type species: Ophiopyrgus wyvillethomsoni Lyman, 1878, by monotypy

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.  [as Ophiopyrgus p. 120–121 (original description)]
• 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.  [as Ophiopyrgus p. 10]