Ceroma
Ceroma (Greek: κήρωμα) was a word which first appeared in the works of the two Roman poets Juvenal and Martial and has come to be defined as a mixture of oil, wax and earth; or, a cloth with which ancient wrestlers rubbed themselves, not only to make their limbs more sleek and less capable of gripping, but more pliable and fit for exercise. However, scholars point out that this definition is a misunderstanding of satire and...
16 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Speckled Solifuge
speciesCeroma langi
Ceroma ornatum
speciesCeroma ornatum
Ceroma zomba
speciesCeroma zomba
Ceroma leppanae
speciesCeroma leppanae
Ceroma pictulum
speciesCeroma pictulum
Ceroma sclateri
speciesCeroma sclateri
Ceroma biseriata
speciesCeroma biseriata
Ceroma hessei
speciesCeroma hessei
Ceroma inerme
speciesCeroma inerme
Ceroma johnstonii
speciesCeroma johnstonii
Ceroma katanganum
speciesCeroma katanganum
Ceroma macrognatha
speciesCeroma macrognatha
Ceroma similis
speciesCeroma similis
Ceroma sylvestris
speciesCeroma sylvestris
Ceroma victoriae
speciesCeroma victoriae
Ceroma swierstrae
speciesCeroma swierstrae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 644313.