Mimella nucleoidea Cooper 1956 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plectorthidae

Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245

Belongs to Mimella according to G. A. Cooper 1956

Sister taxa: Mimella borealis, Mimella globosa, Mimella globularis, Mimella imperator, Mimella vulgaris, Mimella zhejiangensis

Type specimen: USNM 110786, a shell

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Mimella nucleoidea in the database

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