N. coppingeri. Holotype in B.M.N.H. No. 1879.10.15.17.; 13.0x8.1 x 7.0 mm. Creamy-fawn in colour, ornamented with ill-defined purplish-brown bands, some nodules occasionally while, penultimate whorl with 19 axial ribs and 4 spiral rows of flattish cords, body whorl with 25 ribs and 7 rows of cords, nodules almost quadrate, columella smooth, outer lip with 6 denticles. Tom Bay, in the neighbourhood of the island of Madre de Dios, west of Southern Patagonia, 1-30 fathoms (2-55 m) [= Tom Bay, near Madre de Dios Archipelago, Southern Chile).

The "Nassarius coppingeri E. A. Smith" of Forti (1969, pl. 8, fig. 9) and of Rios (1970, pl. 26, figure upper left) are not N. coppingeri as defined by the extant holotype. Rios’ species from Brazil appears to be N. scissuratus (Dall. 1889) and Forties species from the Holocene of Rio Grande do Sul is presumably the same. The Panamanian deep water species Nassarius miser (Dall. 1908) is so similar to N. coppingeri that a re-examination of Dall's holotype and comparison with N. coppingeri would be advisable.