Ophiocomidae are a

family Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ...

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 locomo ...

s of the suborder

Ophiurina Ophiurina are a suborder of brittle stars containing the majority of living brittle star species. Systematics There is currently no consensus as to the subdivision of the Ophiurina (traditionally, the infraorders have been treated as suborders). ...

Systematics and phylogeny

Ophiocomidae has been placed (along with

Ophionereididae Ophionereididae are a family of brittle stars. Systematics Ophionereididae has been placed (along with Ophiocomidae) to the Taxonomic rank, superfamily Ophiocomidea and infraorder Chilophiurina or suborder Chilophiurina in different classificati ...

) to the

superfamily SUPERFAMILY is a database and search platform of structural and functional annotation for all proteins and genomes. It classifies amino acid sequences into known structural domains, especially into SCOP superfamilies. Domains are functional, str ...

Ophiocomidea and

infraorder Order ( la, ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and ...

Gnathophiurina The Gnathophiurina are a group of Ophiuroidea mostly treated as suborder (but at first as an order Gnathophiurida, and sometimes as infraorder of OphiurinaSmith, A.B.; Paterson, G.L.J. . Ophiuroid phylogeny and higher taxonomy: morphological, mo ...

or suborder

in different classifications.

Genera

The following

genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...

are included in the family according to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS):Ophiocomidae
World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2011-08-30. * Subfamily Ophiocominae **Genus '' Clarkcoma'' Devaney, 1970 **Genus '' Ophiarthrum'' Peters, 1851 **Genus '' Ophiocoma'' L. Agassiz, 1835 **Genus '' Ophiocomella'' A.H. Clark, 1939 **Genus '' Ophiocomina'' Koehler, 1920 in Mortensen **Genus '' Ophiomastix'' Müller & Troschel, 1842 **Genus '' Ophiopteris'' E.A. Smith, 1877 * Subfamily Ophiopsilinae **Genus '' Ophiopsila'' Forbes, 1843

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Ophiacanthida Echinoderm families {{Ophiuroidea-stub