Genus Ophiopeza Peters, 1851

Four species and two additional subspecies of Ophiopeza are presently recognized: O. exilis Koehler, 1905; O. kingi Devaney, 1974 and O. spinosa (Ljungman, 1867), O. fallax fallax Peters, 1851, O. fallax arabica A.M. Clark, 1968, and the temperate O. cylindrica (Hutton, 1872) (Stöhr et al. 2016) .