Ophiolepididae
| Ophiolepididae Temporal range: Early Permian to Present | |
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| Ophiolepis elegans | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | Ophiuroidea |
| Order: | Amphilepidida |
| Superfamily: | Ophiolepidoidea |
| Family: | Ophiolepididae Ljungman, 1867 |
| Type genus | |
| Ophiolepis Müller & Troschel, 1840 | |
| Genera | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Ophiolepididae is a family of brittle stars in the superfamily Ophiolepidoidea of the order Amphilepidida. It includes both deep-sea and shallow-water species. The fossils of Ophiolepididae date back to the Asselian age of Cisuralian (Early Permian).
Taxonomy
The phylogenetic tree per O'Hara et al. (2017) is as follows.
The family includes the following genera.
- Archaeophiomusium† Hattin, 1967
- Eozonella† Thuy, Marty & Comment, 2013
- Geocoma† d'Orbigny, 1850
- Mesophiomusium† Kutscher & Jagt, 2000
- Ophiolepis Müller & Troschel, 1840
- Ophiopetra† Hess in Enay & Hess, 1962
- Ophioteichus H.L. Clark, 1938
- Ophiotypa Koehler, 1897
- Stephanoura† Ubaghs, 1941
References
- 1 2 Stöhr S, O'Hara T, eds. (2026). "Ophiolepididae Ljungman, 1867 (restricted)". World Ophiuroidea Database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 6 November 2026.
- ↑ "Ophiolepididae Ljungman, 1867 (restricted)". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 6 November 2026.
- ↑ S.Hottenrott, A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Ophiolepididae (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) with an Evaluation of its Deep Sea Members. Invertebrate Zoology, 1997
- ↑ Ophiolepididae: Age range and collections - The Paleobiology Database
- ↑ O'Hara, Timothy D.; Stöhr, Sabine; Hugall, Andrew F.; Thuy, Ben; Martynov, Alexander (2018). "Morphological diagnoses of higher taxa in Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) in support of a new classification". European Journal of Taxonomy (416). doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.416.
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