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
  2. Chaperia albispina
    		3.  (MacGillivray, 1882) Recent Southern Australia WoRMS 467655
  3. Chaperia arii
    		4.  Gordon, 2025 Recent South Pacific - New Zealand WoRMS 1862711
  4. Chaperia atypica
    		5.  Boonzaaier-Davids, Ma, & McQuaid, 2023 Recent West Indian Ocean South Africa WoRMS 1651562
  5. Chaperia barretoi
    		6. Brown, 1952 Oligocene New Zealand WoRMS 1400781
  6. Chaperia bennettae
    		7.  Gordon, 2025 Recent South Pacific - New Zealand WoRMS 1862712
  7. Chaperia biserialis
    		8.  Gordon, 2025 Recent South Pacific - New Zealand WoRMS 1862722
  8. Chaperia brasiliensis
    		9.  Vieira, Gordon, Souza & Haddad, 2010 Recent West Atlantic - Brazil WoRMS 468319
  9. Chaperia campbellensis
    		10.  Gordon, 2025 Recent South Pacific - New Zealand WoRMS 1862719
  10. Chaperia capensis
    		11. (Busk, 1884) Recent S. Africa WoRMS 467656
  11. Chaperia ciliata
    		12. (MacGillivray, 1869) Recent SE Australia WoRMS 467658
  12. Chaperia crassispina
    		13.  Gordon, 2025 Recent South Pacific - New Zealand WoRMS 1862713
  13. Chaperia dianae
    		14.  Gordon, 2025 Recent South Pacific - New Zealand WoRMS 1862714
  14. Chaperia emarginata
    		15.  Gordon, 2025 Recent South Pacific - New Zealand WoRMS 1862715
  15. Chaperia granulosa
    		16. Gordon, 1986 Recent New Zealand WoRMS 467659
  16. Chaperia infundibulata
    		17. d'Hondt, 1988 Recent Israel WoRMS 467660
  17. Chaperia judex
    		18. (Kirkpatrick, 1888) Recent Indo-Pacific WoRMS 467661
  18. Chaperia juliani
    		19.  Gordon, 2025 Recent South Pacific - New Zealand WoRMS 1862716
  19. Chaperia lata
    		20.  Gordon, 2025 Recent South Pacific - New Zealand WoRMS 1862717
  20. Chaperia laticella
    		21. Canu, 1908 Miocene Argentina WoRMS 1400782
  21. Chaperia maorica
    		22.  (Stoliczka, 1865) Neogene Miocene New Zealand WoRMS 1410454
  22. Chaperia multispinosa
    		23.  Gordon, 1984 Recent Kermadec I., SE Australia WoRMS 467662
  23. Chaperia nicoi
    		24.  Gordon, 2025 Recent South Pacific - New Zealand WoRMS 1862708
  24. Chaperia parva
    		25.  Brown, 1952 Paleogene Oligocene Rupelian New Zealand WoRMS 1400783
  25. Chaperia polygonia
    		26. Kluge, 1914 Recent Antarctica WoRMS 467663
  26. Chaperia robusta
    		27.  Di Martino, Rosso, and Taylor, 2025 Holocene Northwest Pacific Japan Okinawa WoRMS 1797441
  27. Chaperia raphaeli
    		28.  Gordon, 2025 Recent South Pacific - New Zealand WoRMS 1862710
  28. Chaperia sadieae
    		29.  Gordon, 2025 Recent South Pacific - New Zealand WoRMS 1862709
  29. Chaperia sebastiani
    		30.  Gordon, 2025 Recent South Pacific - New Zealand WoRMS 1862720
  30. Chaperia semiaperta
    		31. (Reuss, 1874) Miocene Austria WoRMS 1410455
  31. Chaperia septispina
    		32.  Florence, Hayward & Gibbons, 2007 Recent South Africa WoRMS 467664
  32. Chaperia setigera
    		33.  (Hincks, 1881) Recent South Pacific - Australia WoRMS 471740
  33. Chaperia spatulata
    		34. (Waters, 1881) Miocene SE Australia WoRMS 1410456
  34. Chaperia stotteri
    		35.  Gordon, 2025 Recent South Pacific - New Zealand WoRMS 1862718
  35. Chaperia taylori
    		36.  Ramalho & Calliari, 2015 Recent West Atlantic Brazil Rio Grande do Sul WoRMS 846002
  36. Chaperia tiara
    		37.  Gordon, 2025 Recent South Pacific - New Zealand WoRMS 1862721
  37. Chaperia varians
    		38.  (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)
Modified on 23/12/2025 (Added 15 species)
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