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

Euryalidae Gray, 1840

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Asteroschematidae*	Verrill, 1899	synonym
*Asteroschematinae*	Verrill, 1899 emended Okanishi et al., 2011	synonym
*Euryalidea*	Gray, 1840	synonym
*Euryalinae*	Gray, 1840, emended Okanishi et al., 2011	synonym

Children

Asteroschema Örsted & Lütken in Lütken, 1856
Euryale Lamarck, 1816
Ophiocreas Lyman, 1879

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: basketstars sources: MASDEA (1997).

Japanese: ユウレイモヅル科

Literature

redescription	O'Hara, T. D.; Stöhr, S.; Hugall, A. F.; Thuy, B.; Martynov, A. (2018). Morphological diagnoses of higher taxa in Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) in support of a new classification. European Journal of Taxonomy. (416).
status source	Okanishi, M. & Fujita, T. 2013. Molecular phylogeny based on increased number of species and genes revealed more robust family-level systematics of the order Euryalida (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69: 566-580.
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.

Genbank

Citation

Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Euryalidae Gray, 1840. 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:196223