Gnathophiurina

Gnathophiurina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Echinodermata
Subphylum:	Eleutherozoa
Superclass:	Cryptosyringida
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

Amphilepididae Matsumoto, 1915
Amphiuridae Ljungman, 1867
Ophiactidae Matsumoto, 1915
Ophiothricidae Ljungman, 1866

References

^ "Gnathophiurina". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=157606.
^ 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)