Formal designation of type species G. sebae falls in syn. of C. novaeguineae. This disposes of the name Goniodiscus by synonymy. However many of the species names are referable to Goniasteridae and/or Oreasteridae
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original descriptionAgassiz, L. (1836). Prodrome d'une Monographie des Radiaires ou Echinodermes. <em>Mémoires de la Société des Sciences naturelles de Neuchâtel.</em> 1, 168-199., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10596479 page(s): 192 [details]
basis of recordJangoux, M. (1973). Les Astéries de lIle Inhaca (Mozambique)(Echinodermata, Asteroidea). I. les espèces récoltées et leur répartition géographique. KMMA Annalen Serie IN-8o. <em>Zoologische wetenschappen.</em> 208:1-50.[details]
additional sourceKano, Y.T., M. Komatsu and C. Oguro. 1991. Morphological changes of the cushion star, <i>Culcita novaeguineae</i> Mueller and Troschel, during growth pp. 323-326 in Biology of Echinodermata, ed. by Yanagisawa, Yasumasu, Oguro, Suzuki and Motokawa. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.[details]
additional sourceLivingstone, A.A. (1932). Notes on some representatives of the asteroid genus <i>Culcita</i>. Australian Zoologist 7(3): 265-273.[details]
additional sourceClark, A. M. (1993). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 2: Valvatida. <em>In: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1996). Echinoderm Studies.</em> 4: 187-366. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional sourceHansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i>. 50: pp. 336-351. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional sourceNeave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online athttps://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about[details]
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Remark Type species: Asterias discoidea Lamarck, 1816 (=Asterias schmideliana Retzius, 1805) by monotypy (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
In family Pentagonasteridae in Ludwig (1899). [details] SynonymyCulcita borealis is in the synonymy of Chondraster (in part) and Poraniomorpha (Culcitopsis) borealis. [details]