Species
Ophiothrix spiculata (Western spiny brittle star)
Ophiothrix spiculata. Photo: (c) Robin Gwen Agarwal, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Ophiothrix is a large genus of brittle stars (Ophiuroidea) found in oceans worldwide from tropics to Arctic and Antarctic regions.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Echinodermata (Echinoderms)
- Subphylum: Asterozoa (Sea stars and brittle stars)
- Class: Ophiuroidea (Brittle stars)
- Subclass: Myophiuroida
- Infraclass: Metophiurida
- Superorder: Ophintegrida
- Order: Amphilepidida (Amphilepididans)
- Suborder: Gnathophiurina
- Superfamily: Ophiactoidea
- Family: Ophiotrichidae
- Genus: Ophiothrix
- Subgenus: Ophiothrix
- Species: Ophiothrix spiculata (Western spiny brittle star)
- Subgenus: Ophiothrix
- Genus: Ophiothrix
- Family: Ophiotrichidae
- Superfamily: Ophiactoidea
- Suborder: Gnathophiurina
- Order: Amphilepidida (Amphilepididans)
- Superorder: Ophintegrida
- Infraclass: Metophiurida
- Subclass: Myophiuroida
- Class: Ophiuroidea (Brittle stars)
- Subphylum: Asterozoa (Sea stars and brittle stars)
- Phylum: Echinodermata (Echinoderms)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
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