External skeletal features (spines, scales, etc) vary between species and are key markers used in species identification (refer to Evolution and Systematics). Figures 1 and 2 depict some of the major variations found between different genus groups in expternal scales, plates and spines, specifically in disk and arm morphology. Ophiolepis elegans (Figure 1.O and Figure 2.E) depicts the closest body form to O. superba (same genus) with its distinct configuration of scales (Hendler et al. 1995).

O. superba (Figure 3) has an endoskeleton covered in large scales on its central disk, separated from each other by hundreds of smaller scales (Figure 4). The arms also have a strong endoskeleton, but it is comprised of dorsal, lateral and ventral plates instead of scales (Rowe & Gates 1995). These plates and scales are thicker in the family Ophiuridae, a distinguishable trait which seperates it from all other families. The ventral plates are invaginated adjacent to the lateral plates were fans of small spines (~3-6) is located. Also located ventraly and just between the spines and the ventral plates are the paired tentacle scales and tube feet (Hendler et al. 1995). The O. superba examined in this species identification page had arms with an average length of eight centimeters which are directly used in locomotion as muscular appendages (refer to Locomotion) (Figure 3). This average did not include one of the arms as it was much shorter due to a previous break presumably a decent time ago (as can be assumed by the obvious regeneration of the end portion).

This species is predominantly a beige or yellow-orange colour with very distinctive purple or black banding patterns along the arms and on the central disk (Stöhr, O’Hara & Thuy 2015). The patterning on the central disk is often highly variable between individuals with only pentaradial symmetry remaining relatively consistent. The individual observed in this study had a solid pentagon shaped marking, while other observed photos in the literature depict individuals with star shaped markings to ones with only five solid points (Stöhr, O'Hara and Thuy 2012; Cole 2007).

O. superba is a benthic feeder, eating food off the substrate via their tube feet and muscular arms (Hendler et al. 1995). Compared to some other brittle star species available in this study, O. superba is a lot less active and their reaction speeds appear comparatively slower then some other species from initial observations. This initiates that it would be unlikely for this species to be able to capture live prey. Additionally with its small body size many living prey would be too large to even attempt to consume it (Figure 7). O. superba would therefore most likely feed off of small particles falling to the ocean floor, detritus in particular (Hendler et al. 1995). 
In the following video you can observe the movement of the tube feet and and oral tentacles around the mouth of the Banded Brittle Starfish:

O. superba ventral view https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbx5EzmwE5A (video by Angela J. Upton)

Ophiuroidea do have tube feet like most of their sister classes, however they do not utilize them for locomotion (Figure 8) (Lawrence 1987). They rely on the actions of their five multi-jointed limbs to move across the seafloor (Astley 2012; Romanes, 1885). Brittle Stars (and other Echinodermata classes) are unique benthic animals as they employ coordinated, bilaterally symmetrical movement despite lacking an anatomically defined anterior (Astley 2012).  Despite their pentaradial symmetrical body form (refer to Physical Description Section) they are mobile along an axis of a central limb, which can be any one of its five, with synchronous motion of the remaining four (Astley 2012).

This species is dioecious with indistinguishable genders externally, they most likely reproduce using their bursal cavity as a brooding chamber for their embryos to develop given this is what most Ophiolepis species do (Ruppert, Fox and Barnes 2004) The bursal slits leading to the bursal cavity are found ventraly next to the edges of each arm inside the central disk (Figure 10). Their larvae are therefore most likely planktotrophic, metamorphosising later on in life and eventually settling to the ocean floor (Ruppert, Fox and Barnes 2004).

One of the distinguishing features of the family Ophiuridae is that they posses thick scales and plates as well as the fact that their arms are fused to their central plate (refer to Size and Biometrics). When comparing a cross-section image of a O. superba arm and a general Brittle Star arm there are some notable differences (Figure 11 and 12). The most obvious is the difference in the overall shape with the Banded Brittle Starfish having a slighlty more dorsally flattened then the general form. Also the spines which are very prominent in many other species of brittle star are a lot more reduces and located closer to the ventral plate.

The arm section observed in figure 10 is of the newly regenerated arm mentioned in the Size and Biometrics section of this study. Cross-sections were done both below (10) and above (11) the point of regeneration in the arm and some notable differences were observed between these two as well. The vertebra and the shield plates are much larger in the older arm section, taking up nearly all of the available space in the arm. This shows that as in the process of regenerating a limb the brittle star will grow its plates and vertebra rapidly to supply a framework for the rest of its internal systems and then focus on increasing their mass and become thicker and stronger till it reaches the same thickness as the rest of the arm.