Characodoma Maplestone, 1900

Type species: Characodoma halli Maplestone, 1900 (=Schizoporella excubans Waters, 1881)

Synonyms Author Type Species
Cleidochasma Harmer, 1957 Gemellipora protrusa Thornely, 1905

This genus includes the following species. Several species in this list should be assigned to other genera. These are marked with a query, and were originally described as, or later assigned to Cleidochasma, but are not closely related.

Characodoma? angustum (Winston & Håkansson, 1986) Recent Atlantic (Florida)
Characodoma areolatum (Canu & Bassler, 1929) Recent Indo-Pacific
Characodoma? bassleri (Calvet, 1931) Recent Indo-Pacific
Characodoma biavicularium (Canu & Bassler, 1929) Recent Indo-Pacific
Characodoma? cribritheca (Busk, 1884) Recent South Africa
Characodoma excubans (Waters, 1881) Neogene Miocene Australia (Victoria)
Characodoma? gilchristi Cook, 1966 Recent Indo-Pacific
Characodoma glabrum Gordon & d'Hondt, 1997 Recent New Caledonia
Characodoma? granulosum (Canu & Bassler, 1930) Recent Indo-Pacific
Characodoma? harmeri (Cadée, 1987) Recent Indo-Pacific
Characodoma? latisinuatum Harmer, 1957 Recent Indo-Pacific
Characodoma longitudinale Harmer, 1957 Recent Indo-Pacific
Characodoma mamillatum (Seguenza, 1880) Recent
Tertiary
Mediterranean
Italy
Characodoma parvum Gordon & d'Hondt, 1997 Recent Indo-Pacific
Characodoma peristomarium (Canu & Bassler, 1929) Recent Indo-Pacific
Characodoma protrusum (Thornely, 1905) Recent Ceylon
Characodoma reclinatum Rosso, 1999 Neogene Pleistocene Italy (Sicily)
Characodoma rostratum Rosso, 1999 Neogene Pleistocene Italy (Calabria)
Characodoma rotundorum (Norman, 1909) Recent E. Atlantic (W.Africa)
Characodoma rotundum (Waters, 1881) Neogene Miocene Australia (Victoria)
Characodoma? strangulatum (Calvet, 1906) Recent NE Atlantic
Characodoma suluense (Soule, Soule & Chaney, 1991) Recent Philippines
Characodoma? tuberculatum (Osburn, 1952) Recent
Neogene Pliocene
Galapagos
Japan
Characodoma excubans Characodoma rotundum
Characodoma excubans Characodoma rotundum

Characodoma page at NMITA

Harmer notebook - entry for Characodoma


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