44 Species in Family Ophiactidae
Nominal species list for Ophiactidae
Scientific Name Author English Name
Hemipholis elongata (Say, 1825) Blood brittle star
Hemipholis gracilis Verrill, 1867
Histampica canescens (Lyman, 1879)
Histampica duplicata (Lyman, 1875)
Ophiactis abyssicola (Sars, 1861)
Ophiactis affinis Duncan, 1879
Ophiactis algicola Clark, 1933
Ophiactis amator Koehler, 1922
Ophiactis asperula (Philippi, 1858) Shaggy brittle star
Ophiactis balli (Thompson, 1840)
Ophiactis cyanosticta Clark, 1918
Ophiactis definita Koehler, 1922
Ophiactis flexuosa Lyman, 1879
Ophiactis fuscolineata Clark, 1938
Ophiactis hemiteles Clark, 1915
Ophiactis hexacantha Clark, 1939
Ophiactis hirta Lyman, 1879
Ophiactis lymani Ljungman, 1871
Ophiactis macrolepidota Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1887
Ophiactis maculosa von Martens, 1870
Ophiactis modesta Brock, 1888
Ophiactis mulleri Lütken, 1856
Ophiactis nama Lyman, 1879
Ophiactis picteti (de Loriol, 1893)
Ophiactis plana unspecified
Ophiactis profundi Lütken & Mortensen, 1899
Ophiactis quadrispina Clark, 1915
Ophiactis quinqueradia unspecified Five-armed ophiactis
Ophiactis resiliens Lyman, 1879
Ophiactis savignyi (Müller & Troschel, 1842) Savigny's brittle star
Ophiactis simplex (Le Conte, 1851)
Ophiactis tricolor Clark, 1928
Ophiactis tyleri Stohr & Segonzac, 2005
Ophiactis versicolor Clark, 1939
Ophiactis virens (Sars, 1857)
Ophiodaphne formata (Koehler, 1905)
Ophiodaphne materna Koehler, 1930
Ophiodaphne scripta (Koehler, 1904)
Ophiopholis aculeata (Linnaeus, 1767) Daisy brittle star
Ophiopholis bakeri Mcclendon, 1909 Roughspine brittlestar
Ophiopholis japonica Lyman, 1879
Ophiopholis kennerlyi Lyman, 1860
Ophiopholis longispina Clark, 1911
Ophiosphaera insignis Brock, 1888
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