Zeugophiurina

Taxobox
name = Zeugophiurina
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Echinodermata
classis = Ophiuroidea
ordo = Oegophiurida
subordo = Zeugophiurina
subordo_authority = (Matsumoto 1929)
subdivision_ranks = Families
subdivision =
Ophiocanopidae
†Furcasteridae
†Klasmuridae
†Lapworthuridae

Zeugophiurina is a suborder of primitive brittle stars with three extinct families. The family Ophiocanopidae with only one living genus and species, "Ophiocanops fugiens" has been placed here [Fell,H.B., The Phylogeny of Sea-Stars, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, Vol.246, No.735 (1963)] [ITIS|ID=157327|taxon=Zeugophiurina] but recent studies have challenged this classification [Pawson,D.L.,Phylum Echinodermata, Zootaxa 1668: 749–764 (2007)] .

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