MolluscaBase - Opaliopsis nitida (A. E. Verrill & S. Smith, 1885)

MolluscaBase name details

Opaliopsis nitida (A. E. Verrill & S. Smith, 1885)

AphiaID

524791 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:524791)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Eccliseogyra nitida (A. E. Verrill & S. Smith, 1885)

Rank

Species

Parent

Opaliopsis Thiele, 1928

Original name

Delphinula nitida A. E. Verrill & S. Smith, 1885

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Delphinula nitida A. E. Verrill & S. Smith, 1885) Verrill, A. E. (1885). Third catalogue of Mollusca recently added to the fauna of the New England coast and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic, consisting mostly of deep sea species, with notes on others previously recorded. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 6: 395-452., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7477444 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Opaliopsis nitida (A. E. Verrill & S. Smith, 1885). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=524791 on 2025-09-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-09-17 15:15:20Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2020-02-18 00:08:41Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2022-07-16 20:24:48Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2023-06-19 00:28:51Z

changed

Auffenberg, Kurt

Licensing

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Sources (1)

original description (of Delphinula nitida A. E. Verrill & S. Smith, 1885) Verrill, A. E. (1885). Third catalogue of Mollusca recently added to the fauna of the New England coast and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic, consisting mostly of deep sea species, with notes on others previously recorded. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 6: 395-452., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7477444 [details]