This genus is a stem group members of the Salenioida. Milnia is separated here distinguished by having a very slender, strongly U-shaped posterior genital plate (genital plate 5). Metacrosalenia differs in having simple ambulacral plating from the ambitus adapically. Eodiadema has a similar tuberculation, and a hemicyclic apical disc, but the disc has a smoothly rounded periproctal opening and there is no evidence for there having been suranal plates. Perisalenia has an apical disc with many more periproctal plates forming a pavement inside the apical ring, usually with the most anterior two or three plates enlarged, See discussion in Smith (2016).
A. chartroni has a hemicyclic apical disc and integrated suranal plates that give the inner edge of the apical disc an angular appearance.
Wrightechinus differs from true Acrosalenia in having a monocyclic rather than hemicyclic apical disc. It deserves separation at generic level.
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