Traits name details
original description
Michelin, H. 1858. Revue des espèces connues et nouvelles du genre Mellita, famille des clypéastroides. Rev. et mag. de zool. (2). X. pl. 8. 358-364, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2316681 page(s): 360-361; pl. 8: fig. 1a-c [details]
basis of record
Mortensen, T. (1948). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. IV, 2. Clypeasteroida. Clypeasteridæ, Arachnoidæ, Fibulariidæ, Laganidæ and Scutellidæ. 471 pp., C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen. page(s): 427-428 [details]
redescription
Harold, A. S. & Telford, M. 1990. Systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Mellita (Echinoidea: Clypeasteroida). Journal of Natural History 24, 987-1026., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939000770621 page(s): 1006-1008 [details]
status source
Coppard, S. E. (2016). A new genus of mellitid sand dollar (Echinoidea: Mellitidae) from the eastern Pacific coast of the Americas. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4111(2): 158-166., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4111.2.4 page(s): 160 [details] Available for editors 
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