Ophiodermatidae
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Ophiodermatidae are a family of brittle stars in the suborder Ophiurina.
[edit] Systematics and phylogeny
Some fossils date as far back as the Changhsingian age, late in the Permian period.[1] The family includes the following living genera[2]:
- Bathypectinura
- Cryptopelta
- Diopederma
- Distichophis
- Ophiarachna
- Ophiarachnella
- Ophiochaeta
- Ophiochasma
- Ophioclastus
- Ophioconis
- Ophioconus (accepted as Ophioconis)
- Ophiocormus
- Ophiocryptus
- Ophioderma
- Ophiodyscrita
- Ophioncus
- Ophiopaepale
- Ophiopeza
- Ophiopezella (accepted as Ophiopeza)
- Ophiopinax
- Ophiopsammus
- Ophiostegastus
- Ophiurochaeta
- Pectinura
- Schizoderma
- Toporkovia (accepted as Ophiolimna)
