Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Asterozoa

Ophiuroidea Gray, 1840

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Myophiuroida Matsumoto, 1915
Phrynophiurida Matsumoto, 1915

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: slangsterren sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: brittle stars; brittlestars sources: Hayward, P. J.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1996). Collins pocket guide: sea shore of Britain and Europe. Collins pocket guides. Harper-Collins Publishers: London, UK. ISBN 0-00-219955-6. 352 pp.

German: Schlangensterne

Japanese: クモヒトデ／蛇尾綱 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: ormstjärnor

Literature

basis of record	Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,. 50: pp. 336-351.
identification resource	Fell, H.B. (1960). Synoptic Keys to the Genera of Ophiuroidea, Zoology Publications, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 26: 1-44
identification resource	Fell, H. B. (1961). The fauna of the Ross Sea. Part 1. Ophiuroidea. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir. 18: 1-79, 19 pls.
identification resource	Koehler, R. (1922). Ophiurans of the Philippine Seas and adjacent waters. Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin. 100(5): 1-486.
identification resource	Paterson, G.L.J. (1985). The deep-sea Ophiuroidea of the north Atlantic Ocean. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 49(1): 1-162.
identification resource	Koehler, R. (1904). Ophiures de l'expédition du Siboga. Part 1. Ophiures de mer profonde. In: Weber, Siboga Expeditie. M. E.J. Brill, Leiden. 45a, 1-176.

Genbank

Citation

Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiuroidea. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123084