Elegant Brittle Star

Ophiolepis elegans

Classification

Class: Ophiuroidea
Order: Amphilepidida
Family: Ophiolepididae

Ophiolepis is a genus of brittle stars in the family Ophiolepididae, the family in which it is the type genus. The type species of the genus is Ophiolepis superba though the original type species was Ophiura annulosa which is now accepted as Ophiomastix annulosa. Description Brittle stars in the genus Ophiolepis have a disk that is covered in circular shields.

Distribution

Elegant Brittle Star — (c) FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Loading map…

Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 101Canada · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(c) FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionOphiolepis, Wikipedia contributors

Elegant Brittle Star

More from the same family

Ophiolepis gemma

BOLD:AAI1198

Ophiolepis cincta cincta

scaly brittle star

Ophiolepis paucispina

Long-armed Brittle Star

Amphiodia urtica

brooding snake star