''Ophiocoma'' is a genus of
brittle star
Brittle stars, serpent stars, or ophiuroids (; ; referring to the serpent-like arms of the brittle star) are echinoderms in the class Ophiuroidea, closely related to starfish. They crawl across the sea floor using their flexible arms for locomot ...
s belonging to the
family
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Ophiocomidae
Ophiocomidae are a family of brittle stars of the suborder Ophiurina.
Systematics and phylogeny
Ophiocomidae has been placed (along with Ophionereididae) to the superfamily Ophiocomidea and infraorder Gnathophiurina or suborder Gnathophiurina ...
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Selected species
* ''Ophiocoma aethiops
''Ophiocoma'' is a genus of brittle stars belonging to the family Ophiocomidae.
Selected species
* '' Ophiocoma aethiops'' (Lütken, 1859)
* '' Ophiocoma echinata'' (Lamarck, 1816)
* ''Ophiocoma erinaceus'' (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
* ''Ophioco ...
'' (Lütken, 1859)
* '' Ophiocoma echinata'' (Lamarck, 1816)
* ''Ophiocoma erinaceus
''Ophiocoma erinaceus'' is an echinoderm, more specifically a brittle star of the Ophiocomidae family.
Description
''Ophiocoma erinaceus'' is black with red tube feet. On the arm segments, there are three arm spines on one segment while the ot ...
'' (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
* ''Ophiocoma scolopendrina
''Ophiocoma scolopendrina'' is a species of brittle star belonging to the Family (biology), family Ophiocomidae. Restricted to life in the intertidal, they live in the Indo-Pacific. They can typically be found within crevices or beneath borders o ...
'' (Lamarck, 1816)
* ''Ophiocoma wendtii
''Ophiomastix wendtii'', also known by its common name, the red ophiocoma, and formerly as ''Ophiocoma wendtii'', is a species of brittle stars that inhabits coral reefs from Bermuda to Brazil, primarily in the Caribbean sea. These brittle stars ...
'' (Müller
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& Troschel, 1842)
References
Biolib
Ophiocomidae
Ophiuroidea genera
Taxa named by Louis Agassiz
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