(invertebrate zoology) A family of large euechinoid echinoderms in the order Diadematoida having crenulate tubercles and long spines.
Diadematidae
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Diadematidae is a family descending from the class Echinoidea, comprising sea urchins.
| Genus | Author Genus | Species | Author Species | Age |
| Astropyga | Gray, 1825 | Astropyga radiata | (Leske, 1778) | Actual |
| Astropyga pulvinata | (Lamarck, 1816) | Actual | ||
| Astropyga magnifica | Clark, 1934 | Actual | ||
| Centrostephanus | Peters, 1855 | Centrostephanus asteriscus | Agassiz & Clark,1907 | Actual |
| Centrostephanus coronatus | (Verrill,1867) | Actual | ||
| Centrostephanus fragile | (Wiltshire in Wright,1882) | Santonian Maastrichtian Danian |
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| Centrostephanus longispinus | Philippi,1845 | Actual | ||
| Centrostephanus nitidus | Koehler,1927 | Actual | ||
| Chaetodiadema | Mortensen, 1903 | Chaetodiadema granulatum | Mortensen, 1903 | Actual |
| Chaetodiadema keiense | Mortensen, 1903 | Actual | ||
| Chaetodiadema tuberculatum | Clark, 1909 | Actual | ||
| Diadema | Humpfreys, 1797 | Diadema palmeri [1] | Baker, 1967 | Actual |
| Diadema savignyi | (Michelin, 1845) | Actual | ||
| Diadema setosum | (Leske, 1778) | Actual | ||
| Diadema antillarum | Actual | |||
| Diadema paucispinum | (Agassiz, 1863) | Actual | ||
| Diadema mexicanum | (Agassiz, 1863) | ActualA. | ||
| Diadema ascensionis | (Mortensen, 1909) | Actual | ||
| Echinodiadema | Verrill, 1867 | Echinodiadema coronata | Verrill, 1867 | Actual |
| Echinothrix | Peters, 1853 | Echinothrix calamaris | (Pallas, 1774) | Actual |
| Echinothrix diadema | (Linnaeus, 1758) | Actual | ||
| Eodiadema | - | – | – | Lower Jurassic |
| Eremopyga | Agassiz & Clark, 1908 | Eremopyga denudata | (De Meijere, 1904) | Actual |
| Goniodiadema | Mortensen, 1939 | Goniodiadema mauritiense | Mortensen, 1939 | Actual |
| Kamptosoma | Mortensen, 1903 | – | – | Actual |
| Palaeodiadema | Pomel, 1887 | – | – | Santonian, Maastrichtian Danian |
| Pedinothuria | Louis, 1897 | Pedinothuria cidaroides | Gregory, 1897 | Callovian Oxfordian |
| Trichodiadema | Agassiz, 1863 | Trichodiadema rodgersii | Agassiz, 1863 | Actual |
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