Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Asterozoa > Class Ophiuroidea > Subclass Myophiuroida > Infraclass Metophiurida > Superorder Euryophiurida > Order Euryalida > Family Gorgonocephalidae > Subfamily Gorgonocephalinae

Gorgonocephalus Leach, 1815

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Gorgonocephalus arcticus Leach, 1819
Gorgonocephalus caputmedusae (Linnaeus, 1758)
Gorgonocephalus eucnemis (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Gorgonocephalus lamarckii (Müller & Troschel, 1842)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: テヅルモヅル属 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Norwegian Bokmål: medusahoder sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: medusahovud

Literature

original description	Leach, W. E. (1815). The Zoological Miscellany; Being Descriptions of New, or Interesting Animals. R.P. Nodder, London. 2: 1-154, pls. 61-120.
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.
additional source	Baker, A. N. (1980). Euryalinid Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from Australia, New Zealand, and the south-west Pacific Ocean. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 7, 11-83.
additional source	Hansson, H. G. (1998). NEAT (North East Atlantic Taxa): Scandinavian Echinodermata Check-List (Comp.).

Genbank

Citation

Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Gorgonocephalus Leach, 1815. 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:123586