Named by Carter.

Original description: Test with small cortical shell, triangular to subtriangular in outline and three medium-sized spines of equal length. Surface of cortical shell slightly convex with large subtriangular to irregularly shaped pore frames and deeply incised pores, sub-round in shape. Pore frame vertices usually with small to medium sized nodes; some groups of pore frames partly surrounded by massive raised ridges. Spines assymetrically arranged; two spines closer together than the third. Spines stout, triradiate and strongly tapering with narrow ridges and wide grooves.

Original remarks: Charlottea hotaoensis n. sp. differs from C. triquetra Whalen & Carter in having a strongly triangular rather than subtriangular shell and less convex shell surfaces. It is likely that C. hotaoensis n. sp. is derived from C. triquetra. In our material, C. triquetra ranges from upper Sinemurian to basal Pliensbachian; C. hotaoensis n. sp. does not range below the Pliensbachian. This new species may also represent the transition between the two eptingiid genera, Charlottea and Perispyridium.

Etymology: This species is named for the Haida village of Hotao on the southwest side of Maude Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia.

Charlottea hotaoensis was named by Gorican et al. (2006). Its type specimen is GSC 111713 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Maude Island, west of Ells Bay; GSC loc. C-304566, which is in a Pliensbachian marine limestone in the Fannin Formation of Canada.