Genus Asterinides Verrill, 1913

Type species. Asterinides folium (Lütken, 1860) (type by original designation).

Remarks. Asterinides includes four valid species, all of them originally described in different genera: A. folium, A. hartmeyeri (Döderlein, 1910), A. pilosa (Perrier, 1881) and A. pompom (Clark, 1983) . All of these species occur in the Western Atlantic Ocean, especially in the Caribbean Sea, and A. folium is the only one found in the southern hemisphere.