Chaperia Jullien, 1881

Type species: Chaperia australis, Jullien, 1881, nom. nov. for Membranipora spinosa Busk, 1879, a synonym of Flustra acanthina Lamouroux 1824.

Synonyms Author Type species
Chapperia Willey, 1900 Flustra acanthina Lamouroux, 1825
Chaperiella Strand, 1928 Flustra acanthina Lamouroux, 1825

This genus includes the species:

  1. Chaperia acanthina
  2. (Lamouroux, 1825) Recent Southern hemisphere, Japan? WoRMS 467654
  3. Chaperia albispina
  4. (MacGillivray, 1882) Recent Southern Australia WoRMS 467655
  5. Chaperia atypica
  6. Boonzaaier-Davids, Ma, & McQuaid, 2023 Recent West Indian Ocean South Africa WoRMS 1651562
  7. Chaperia barretoi
  8. Brown, 1952 Oligocene New Zealand WoRMS 1400781
  9. Chaperia brasiliensis
  10. Vieira, Gordon, Souza & Haddad, 2010 Recent West Atlantic - Brazil WoRMS 468319
  11. Chaperia capensis
  12. (Busk, 1884) Recent S. Africa WoRMS 467656
  13. Chaperia ciliata
  14. (MacGillivray, 1869) Recent SE Australia WoRMS 467658
  15. Chaperia granulosa
  16. Gordon, 1986 Recent New Zealand WoRMS 467659
  17. Chaperia infundibulata
  18. d'Hondt, 1988 Recent Israel WoRMS 467660
  19. Chaperia judex
  20. (Kirkpatrick, 1888) Recent Indo-Pacific WoRMS 467661
  21. Chaperia laticella
  22. Canu, 1908 Miocene Argentina WoRMS 1400782
  23. Chaperia maorica
  24. (Stoliczka, 1865) Neogene Miocene New Zealand WoRMS 1410454
  25. Chaperia multispinosa
  26. Gordon, 1984 Recent Kermadec I., SE Australia WoRMS 467662
  27. Chaperia parva
  28. Brown, 1952 Paleogene Oligocene Rupelian New Zealand WoRMS 1400783
  29. Chaperia polygonia
  30. Kluge, 1914 Recent Antarctica WoRMS 467663
  31. Chaperia robusta
  32. Di Martino, Rosso, and Taylor, 2025 Holocene Northwest Pacific Japan Okinawa WoRMS 1797441
  33. Chaperia semiaperta
  34. (Reuss, 1874) Miocene Austria WoRMS 1410455
  35. Chaperia septispina
  36. Florence, Hayward & Gibbons, 2007 Recent South Africa WoRMS 467664
  37. Chaperia setigera
  38. (Hincks, 1881) Recent South Pacific - Australia WoRMS 471740
  39. Chaperia spatulata
  40. (Waters, 1881) Miocene SE Australia WoRMS 1410456
  41. Chaperia taylori
  42. Ramalho & Calliari, 2015 Recent West Atlantic Brazil Rio Grande do Sul WoRMS 846002
  43. Chaperia varians
  44. (O'Donoghue & O'Donoghue, 1923) Recent Northeast Pacific Canada WoRMS 870504
[Chaperia acanthina] [Chaperia albispina] [Chaperia multispinosa]
Chaperia acanthina Chaperia albispina Chaperia multispinosa

The date of publication of Lamouroux in Quoy & Gaimard, "Voyage Autour du Monde" is 1825, not 1824. See AMNH 7 (7) p.392.

Harmer notebook - entry for Chaperia
Harmer notebook - entry for Omoiosia

Chaperia page at NMITA


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Modified on 21/5/2020 (Added WoRMS links)
Modified on 27/7/2020 (Transferred C.familiaris to Chaperiopsis `` )
Modified on 27/7/2020 (Added C.atypica)
Modified on 11/2/2025 (Added C.robusta)
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