Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Asterozoa > Class Ophiuroidea > Subclass Myophiuroida > Infraclass Metophiurida > Superorder Ophintegrida > Order Ophiacanthida > Suborder Ophiodermatina > Superfamily Ophiocomoidea

Ophiocomidae Ljungman, 1867

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

Ophiocominae synonym

Children

Ophiocoma L. Agassiz, 1836

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Japanese: フサクモヒトデ科

Literature

basis of record

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

additional source

Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

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Citation

Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiocomidae Ljungman, 1867. 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:152490

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:152490

Last modified

2018-03-14 by Sabine Stöhr

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