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Ophiocomidae Ljungman, 1867 
AphiaID: 152490

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Gnathophiurina (Infraorder)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Typetaxon Ophiocoma L. Agassiz, 1835
Parent Gnathophiurina
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Subfamily Ophiocominae
  » Genus Clarkcoma Devaney, 1970
» Genus Ophiarthrum Peters, 1851
» Genus Ophiocoma L. Agassiz, 1835
» Genus Ophiocomella A.H. Clark, 1939
» Genus Ophiocomina Koehler, 1920 in Mortensen
» Genus Ophiomastix Müller & Troschel, 1842
» Genus Ophiopteris E. A. Smith, 1877
Subfamily Ophiopsilinae Matsumoto, 1915
  » Genus Ophiopsila Forbes, 1843
» Genus Amphipsila Verrill, 1899 accepted as Ophiopsila Forbes, 1843
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Notes  Description: The most dominant family in the tropics. Jaws triangular with numerous lateral papillae along the edge of the oral plates, and with a cluster of papillae at the apex of each jaw. Richmond 1997 <282>. [details]

Remark: In order Chylophiurida in Devaney 1970. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:152490
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-04-12 09:49:49Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2005-12-30 14:07:12Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2007-07-12 08:44:07Z  changed  Stöhr, Sabine
2008-10-08 14:58:54Z  changed  Stöhr, Sabine
2012-09-14 07:57:08Z  changed  Stöhr, Sabine
  
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  Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiocomidae. In: Stöhr, S., O’Hara, T. (Eds) (2013). World Ophiuroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152490 on 2013-05-25
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