Gnathophiurina
Gnathophiurina | |
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Amphipholis squamata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Echinodermata |
Class: | Ophiuroidea |
Order: | Ophiurida |
Suborder: | Gnathophiurina Matsumoto, 1915 |
Families | |
See text. |
The Gnathophiurina are a group of Ophiuroidea mostly treated as suborder[1] (but at first as an order Gnathophiurida,[2] and sometimes as infraorder of Ophiurina[3] or not used at all).
Families
[edit]- Amphilepididae Matsumoto, 1915
- Amphiuridae Ljungman, 1867
- Ophiactidae Matsumoto, 1915
- Ophiocomidae Ljungman, 1867
- Ophionereididae Ljungman, 1867
- Ophiothricidae Ljungman, 1867
References
[edit]- ^ "Gnathophiurina". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- ^ Matsumoto, H., A New Classification of the Ophiuroidea: With Descriptions of New Genera and Species, Proc. of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol.67, No.1 (1915)
- ^ Smith, A.B.; Paterson, G.L.J. . Ophiuroid phylogeny and higher taxonomy: morphological, molecular and palaeontological perspectives. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 114 (1995)