Patinella Gray, 1848

Type species: Madrepora verrucaria Linnaeus, 1758

The long-forgotten genus Patinella includes most Recent species of adnate lichenoporids formerly included in Lichenopora . It appears to be largely Northern Hemisphere in distribution.

This genus includes the species:

Patinella aztiensis (Alvarez, 1995) Recent Mediterranean Tunisia
Patinella brusinae (Neviani, 1939) Recent Mediterranean Adriatic
Patinella distincta (Alvarez, 1993) Recent Mediterranean Spain
Patinella flosculus (Hincks, 1862) Recent Northeast Atlantic England
Patinella mediterranea (de Blainville, 1834) Recent
Neogene
Mediterranean
Europe
Patinella multicentra (Kluge, 1955) Recent Arctic
Patinella radiata (Audouin, 1826) Recent Europe
Patinella radiata scalaris (Neviani, 1939) Recent Mediterranean Adriatic
Patinella radiata sparsa (Neviani, 1939) Recent Mediterranean Adriatic
Patinella sibirica (Kluge, 1955) Recent Arctic
Patinella verrucaria (Linnaeus, 1758) Recent
Cenozoic Neogene
Europe
Europe

Reference:Gordon, D.P. & Taylor, P.D. 2001. New Zealand Recent Densiporidae and Lichenoporidae (Bryozoa: Cyclostomata). Species diversity 6: 243-290.

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Patinella radiata
Thanks to Wolfgang Seifarth for photos
 

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