Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Caenogastropoda incertae sedis > Superfamily Epitonioidea > Family Epitoniidae > Genus Opaliopsis

Opaliopsis atlantis (Clench & R. D. Turner, 1952)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Nystiella Clench & R. D. Turner, 1952

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Opaliopsis*	Thiele, 1928	accepted genus name
*Nystiella*	Clench & R. D. Turner, 1952	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Brown L.G. & Neville B.D. (2015). Catalog of the recent taxa of the families Epitoniidae and Nystiellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with a bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature. Zootaxa. 3907(1): 1-188.
additional source	Andrade B.G., Costa P.M. Santos & Pimenta A. Dias (2011) Taxonomic review of the genus Opaliopsis (Gastropoda: Nystiellidae) from Brazil, with description of a new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 91(7): 1561-1566.
additional source	Landau B.M. & Mulder H. (2020). Additions and corrections to the gastropod fauna of the Pliocene of Estepona, southwestern Spain, 4. Basteria. 84(1-3): 26-57.
additional source	Pimenta A.D., Andrade B.G. & Absalão R.S. (2018). Taxonomy of Nystiellidae (Caenogastropoda, Epitonioidea) from Brazil, with description of three new species from the South-western Atlantic. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 98(7): 1619-1644.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Opaliopsis atlantis (Clench & R. D. Turner, 1952). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:139753