family
Ophiacanthidae
Ophiacanthidae
Field notes
Ophiacanthidae is a family of brittle stars. Axel Vilhelm Ljungman circumscribed this taxon in 1867; he initially named the subfamily Ophiacanthinae within the family Amphiuridae. Gordon L. J. Paterson promoted its rank to family in 1985.
As of 2020, genera include:
Ophiacantha Müller & Troschel, 1842
Ophiohamus O'Hara & Stöhr, 2006
Brezinacantha Thuy et al., 2018
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