''Ophiopsis'' is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ophiopsidae. Specimens are known from the Tithonian-age Solnhofen Formation of Bavaria, Germany.

Taxonomy

The type species, ''Ophiopsis muensteri'', was previously placed in '' Furo'' by several authors who mistakenly considered '' Ophiopsiella procera'' the ''Ophiopsis'' type species. However, Lane and Ebert (2015) noted that ''Ophiopsis'' originally included ''O. muensteri'' only when first erected by Agassiz (1834), so they re-assigned ''procera'' and some ''Ophiopsis'' species to the new genus ''Ophiopsiella''.Lane, J. A. & Ebert, M., 2015: A taxonomic reassessment of Ophiopsis (Halecomorphi, Ionoscopiformes), with a revision of Upper Jurassic species from the Solnhofen Archipelago, and a new genus of Ophiopsidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 35 (1): e883238. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2014.883238

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Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera Ionoscopiformes Jurassic bony fish Jurassic fish of Europe {{Paleo-rayfinned-fish-stub

Taxonomy

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