Table 1. Breakdown of living taxa among the Neoasteroidea from Foltz and Mah [69], [181].
| Superorder | Order | Family | # genera | # species |
| Forcipulatacea | Forcipulatida | Asteriidae | 35 | 178 |
| Heliasteridae | 2 | 9 | ||
| Stichasteridae | 9 | 28 | ||
| “Pedicellasteridae” | 7 | 32 | ||
| Zoroasteridae | 7 | 36 | ||
| Total Forcipulatida | 60 | 283 | ||
| Brisingida | Brisingidae | 10 | 63 | |
| Freyellidae | 7 | 47 | ||
| TOTAL Brisingida | 17 | 110 | ||
| TOTAL Forcipulatacea | 77 | 393 | ||
| Spinulosida | Echinasteridae | 8 | 133 | |
| TOTAL Spinulosida | 8 | 133 | ||
| Valvatacea | Poraniidae | 7 | 22 | |
| Valvatida | Acanthasteridae | 1 | 2 | |
| Archasteridae | 1 | 3 | ||
| “Asterinidae” | 25 | 147 | ||
| Asterodiscididae | 4 | 20 | ||
| Asteropseidae | 5 | 6 | ||
| Chaetasteridae | 1 | 4 | ||
| Ganeriidae | 9 | 21 | ||
| Goniasteridae | 65 | 256 | ||
| Leilasteridae | 2 | 4 | ||
| Mithrodiidae | 2 | 7 | ||
| Odontasteridae | 6 | 28 | ||
| Ophidiasteridae | 27 | 106 | ||
| Oreasteridae | 20 | 74 | ||
| Podospherasteridae | 1 | 6 | ||
| Solasteridae | 9 | 51 | ||
| Caymanostellidae | 2 | 6 | ||
| TOTAL Valvatida | 187 | 763 | ||
| Valvatacea | Paxillosida | Astropectinidae | 26 | 243 |
| Benthopectinidae | 8 | 69 | ||
| Ctenodiscidae | 1 | 5 | ||
| Goniopectinidae | 3 | 10 | ||
| Luidiidae | 1 | 49 | ||
| Porcellanasteridae | 12 | 30 | ||
| Radiasteridae | 1 | 5 | ||
| Pseudarchasteridae | 4 | 29 | ||
| TOTAL Paxillosida | 56 | 439 | ||
| TOTAL Valvatacea | 243 | 1224 | ||
| Velatida | Korethrasteridae | 3 | 7 | |
| Myxasteridae | 3 | 9 | ||
| Pterasteridae | 8 | 116 | ||
| Concentricycloidea | Xyloplacidae | 1 | 3 | |
| TOTAL Species | 343 | 1890 |
“Quotation marks” indicate groups that were not supported as monophyletic.
Boldface indicates groups with large numbers of taxa.