Ophiuroidea {class} - Echinodermata;

Brittle stars or ophiuroids are echinoderms in the class Ophiuroidea closely related to starfish.They crawl across the seafloor using their flexible arms for locomotion. The ophiuroids generally have five long slender, whip-likearms which may reach up to 60 centimetres (24 in) in length on the largest specimens. They are also known as serpent stars. full article at Wikipedia

Specimen Records:	21,985	Public Records:	15,036
Specimens with Sequences:	18,097	Public Species:	738
Specimens with Barcodes:	14,667	Public BINs:	1,061
Species:	948
Species With Barcodes:	776
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United States 830 Mexico 102 Saudi Arabia 36 Canada 752 Norway 100 Peru 34 Australia 726 Indonesia 77 Saint Helena Ascension and Tristan da Cunha 30 Panama 604 French Polynesia 64 Argentina 20 Costa Rica 174 Madagascar 49 Netherlands 20 South Africa 118 Southern Ocean 43 New Caledonia 14 United Kingdom 103 Colombia 39