Genus Coscinasterias Verrill, 1867

Type species. Coscinasterias muricata Verrill, 1867 (type by monotypy).

Remarks. Coscinasterias includes four species: C. acutispina (Stimpson, 1842) and C. muricata Verrill, 1870 from the Pacific Ocean, C. calamaria (Gray, 1840) from South Africa and Australia, and C. tenuispina (Lamarck, 1816) from the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.