Gnathophiurina
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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).
[edit] Families
- Amphilepididae Matsumoto, 1915
- Amphiuridae Ljungman, 1867
- Ophiactidae Matsumoto, 1915
- Ophiothricidae Ljungman, 1866
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[edit] References
- ^ Gnathophiurina (TSN 157606). 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)
