Schizostella

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Euryalida

Superregnum: Eukaryota 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: Euryalida

Familia: Gorgonocephalidae
Subfamilia: Gorgonocephalinae
Genus: Schizostella
Species: S. bifurcata

• In synonymy: S. bayeri
  

Name

Schizostella A.H. Clark, 1952

• ZooBank: 0783E37E-98FF-4B3D-9813-719270CA91F9

• Type species: Schizostella bifurcata A.H. Clark, 1952, by original designation.

Synonymy

• Schizostella A.H. Clark, 1952: 451–452; — O’Hara et al., 2018: 7.

References

• Clark, A.H. 1952. Schizostella, a new genus of brittle-star (Gorgonocephalidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 102: 451–454. 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

• Schizostella A.H. Clark, 1952 in the World Ophiuroidea Database, accessed on October 17, 2025

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