Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Asterozoa > Class Ophiuroidea > Subclass Myophiuroida > Infraclass Metophiurida > Superorder Euryophiurida > Order Ophiurida > Suborder Ophiurina > Family Ophiopyrgidae

Ophioplinthus Lyman, 1878

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Homalophiura*	H.L. Clark, 1915	synonym
*Homophiura*	Paterson, 1985	synonym
*Ophiurolepis*	Matsumoto, 1915	synonym

Children

Ophioplinthus abyssorum (Lyman, 1883)
Ophioplinthus inornata (Lyman, 1878)
Ophioplinthus madseni (Belyaev & Litvinova, 1972)
Ophioplinthus tessellata (Verrill, 1894)

Literature

original description	Lyman, T. (1878). Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae of the “Challenger” expedition. Part I. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. 5(7), 65-168, 10 pl.
basis of record	Clarke, Andrew; Johnston, Nadine M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review. 41: 47-114.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
status source	Martynov, A.V. & Litvinova, N.M. (2008). Deep-water Ophiuroidea of the northern Atlantic with descriptions of three species and taxonomic remarks on certain genera and species. Marine Biology research 4: 76-111
taxonomy source	O'Hara, T. D.; Hugall, A. F.; Thuy, B.; Stöhr, S.; Martynov, A. V. (2017). Restructuring higher taxonomy using broad-scale phylogenomics: The living Ophiuroidea. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 107: 415-430.

Genbank

Citation

Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophioplinthus Lyman, 1878. 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:172623