Mellita L. Agassiz, 1841

Coppard, Simon E., 2016, A new genus of mellitid sand dollar (Echinoidea: Mellitidae) from the eastern Pacific coast of the Americas, Zootaxa 4111 (2), pp. 158-166 : 160

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.2.4

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6089816

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Mellita L. Agassiz, 1841
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Mellita L. Agassiz, 1841

Des Scutelles. Monographies des Echinoderms Vivans et Fossiles. Monograph 2, 1–151.

Type species. Echinodiscus quinquiesperforatus Leske, 1778 (= Mellita testudinata Klein, 1734 ), by subsequent designation of Pomel, 1883.

Assigned species. (sensu Coppard et al. 2013) M. quinquiesperforata ( Leske, 1778) , M. tenuis Clark, 1940 (= M. isometra Harold & Telford, 1990 ), M. notabilis Clark, 1947 (= M. kanakoffi Durham, 1961 , = M. eduardobarrosoi Caso, 1981 ).

Distribution. Early Pliocene to Recent. Caribbean Sea, tropical and subtropical Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the Americas.

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