Ophiolepidoidea Ljungman, 1867

Stöhr, Sabine, Hugall, Andrew F., Thuy, Ben & Martynov, Alexander, 2018, Morphological diagnoses of higher taxa in Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) in support of a new classification, European Journal of Taxonomy 416, pp. 1-35 : 17

Suborder Ophionereidina O’Hara et al., 2017 Superfamily Ophiolepidoidea Ljungman, 1867

Diagnosis Disc with stout plates, few or no stout scales, neither granules nor spines. Primary plates usually distinct. Spine articulations small and generally sunken in notches of distal plate edge.