Neoferdina is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

of starfish in the family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Goniasteridae

Goniasteridae

Goniasteridae are a large family of sea stars. About 260 extant species within 70 genera are currently known. They occur predominantly on deep-water continental shelf habitats in all the world’s oceans, being the most diverse in the Indo-Pacific region...

. Members of the genus are found in the Indo-Pacific region, mostly between the Andaman Isles to the West and the Wake Isles, the Marshall Isles and Fiji to the east. The discovery of several species in the Seychelles widened the range considerably.

Species

The following species are included in the genus according to the World Register of Marine Species:

• Neoferdina cumingi (Gray, 1840) - New Caledonia
• Neoferdina glyptodisca (Fisher, 1913) - Philippine Islands
• Neoferdina insolita Livingstone, 1936 - Indonesia
• Neoferdina japonica Oguro & Misaki, 1986 - Japan
• Neoferdina kuhli (Müller & Troschel, 1842) - Tanzania and Java
• Neoferdina offreti (Koehler, 1910) - Aldabra, Palau Islands and Seychelles