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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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.

Agassiz, L. (1841) Des Scutelles. Monographies des Echinoderms Vivans et Fossiles, Monograph 2, 1 - 151. Budd, A. F. & Johnson, K. G. (1999) Origination preceding extinction during late Cenozoic turnover of Caribbean reefs. Paleobiology, 25, 188 - 200.

Caso, M. E. (1981) Contribucion al estudio de los Echinozoa de Mexico. La Familia Mellitidae Stefanini. Description de una nueva especie del genero Mellita. Mellita eduardobarrosoi sp. nov. Anales del Centro de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 7, 141 - 180.

Clark, H. L. (1940) Revision of the keyhole urchins (Mellita). Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 89, 435 - 444. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.89 - 3099.435

Clark, H. L. (1947) A new and remarkable keyhole urchin, Mellita notabilis n. sp. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 46, 77 - 78.

Coppard, S. E., Zigler, K. & Lessios, H. A. (2013) Phylogeography of the sand dollar genus Mellita: cryptic speciation along the coasts of the Americas. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 69, 1033 - 1042. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2013.05.028

Durham, J. W. (1961) The Echinoid Mellita in the Pacific Coast Cenozoic. Contributions in Science Los Angeles County Museum, 48, 3 - 12.

Harold, A. S. & Telford, M. (1990) Systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Mellita (Echinoidea: Clypeasteroida). Journal of Natural History, 24, 987 - 1026. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939000770621

Klein, J. T. (1734) Naturalis dispositio echinodermatum. Accesseit lucubratiuncula de aculeis echinorum marinorum, cum spicilegio de belemnitis. Gedani, Schreiber, 78 pp.

Leske, N. G. (1778) Iacobi Theodori Klein naturalis dispositio echinodermatum. Accesserunt lucubratiuncula de aculeis echinorum marinorum et spicilegium de belemnitis. Lipsiae, Gleditsch, 278 pp.

Pomel, A. (1883) Classification methodique et genera des echinides vivantes et fossiles. Theses presentees a la faculte des Sciences de Paris pour obtenir le grade de docteur es sciences naturelles 503, Adolphe Jourdan, Alger, 131 pp.