Family Ophioleucidae Matsumoto 1915 (brittle star)
Ophiuroidea - Ophioleucida - Ophioleucidae
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: Ophioleucida according to T. D. O'Hara et al. 2018
See also Matsumoto 1915 and O'Hara et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Ophiernidae, Triadoleucella
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore-detritivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Ophioleucidae in the database