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Euryalidae Gray, 1840 
AphiaID: 196223

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Euryalida (Order)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Typetaxon Euryale Lamarck, 1816
Parent Euryalida
Source  taxonomy source: Okanishi, M., O'Hara, T.D. & Fujita, T. 2011. Molecular phylogeny of the order Euryalida (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea), based on mitochondrial and nuclear ribosomal genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61: 392-399. [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English basketstars  [details]
Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Subfamily Asteroschematinae Verrill, 1899 emended Okanishi et al., 2011
  » Genus Asteroschema Oerstedt & Lütken, 1856
» Genus Ophiocreas Lyman, 1879
Subfamily Astrocharinae Okanishi et al., 2011
  » Genus Astrocharis Koehler, 1904
» Genus Squamophis Okanishi et al., 2011
Subfamily Euryalinae Gray, 1840, emended Okanishi et al., 2011
  » Genus Asteromorpha Lütken, 1869
» Genus Asterostegus Mortensen, 1933
» Genus Astrobrachion Doederlein, 1927
» Genus Astroceras Lyman, 1879
» Genus Euryale Lamarck, 1816
» Genus Sthenocephalus Koehler, 1898
» Genus Trichaster L. Agassiz, 1836
» Genus Asteroceras Lyman, 1879 accepted as Astroceras Lyman, 1879
» Genus Astrostegus accepted as Asterostegus Mortensen, 1933
» Genus Ophiogelas Koehler, 1930 accepted as Asteromorpha Lütken, 1869
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Notes  Description: Similar to Gorgonocephalidae, but lacking bands of hook-like spines on arms. [details]

Remark: Same as Euryalinidae in Baker 1980?? [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196223
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-12-30 14:07:12Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2007-07-12 08:44:07Z  changed  Stöhr, Sabine
2009-06-23 07:41:53Z  changed  Stöhr, Sabine
2011-09-19 13:40:18Z  changed  Stöhr, Sabine
  
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  Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Euryalidae. 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=196223 on 2013-05-22
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