Suborder Gnathophiurina Matsumoto 1915 (brittle star)

Ophiuroidea - Amphilepidida

Alternative spelling: Gnathophiurida

Full reference: H. Matsumoto. 1915. A new classification of Ophiuroidea: with description of genera and species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 67:43-92

Parent taxon: Amphilepidida according to T. D. O'Hara et al. 2018

See also Matsumoto 1915, O'Hara et al. 2017 and Spencer and Wright 1966

Sister taxa: Ophionereidina, Ophiopsilina

Subtaxa: Amphiuroidea Ophiactoidea

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Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder

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