''Ophiocomina'' 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

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Ophiotomidae Ophiotomidae is a family of brittle stars. It was originally introduced as a subfamily Ophiotominae under the family Ophiacanthidae Ophiacanthidae is a family of brittle stars. Axel Vilhelm Ljungman circumscribed this taxon in 1867; he initial ...

. They are distributed worldwide.

Selected species

There are two species: * '' Ophiocomina arnaudi'' O'Hara & Thuy, 2022 * '' Ophiocomina nigra'' (Abildgaard in O.F. Müller, 1789) ''Ophiocomina australis'' is now recognized as '' Clarkcoma australis''.

References

Ophiacanthida Ophiuroidea genera {{Ophiuroidea-stub