Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Genus Dentalium Linnaeus, 1758

Museums

Regional Maps

Genus Dentalium Linnaeus, 1758

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

Dentalium beachportensis Cotton & Ludbrook, 1938 — Lamprell, K.L. & Healy, J.M. 1998. A revision of the Scaphopoda from Australian waters (Mollusca). Records of the Australian Museum Suppl. 24: 1-189 [172] (probably a fragment of the rhachis of a pennatulid (sea pen, Cnidaria))

Dentalium laeve Brazier, 1877 — Lamprell, K.L. & Healy, J.M. 1998. A revision of the Scaphopoda from Australian waters (Mollusca). Records of the Australian Museum Suppl. 24: 1-189 [172] (recognised by Pilsbry & Sharp (1898) as a serpulid polychaete)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

  • Mozambique

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: SW coast
    • New South Wales: Central E coast, Lower E coast, SE oceanic
    • Northern Territory: Gulf of Carpentaria, N coast
    • Queensland: Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carpentaria, NE coast, NE oceanic
    • South Australia: Great Australian Bight, S Gulfs coast, S oceanic
    • Tasmania: Bass Strait, SE oceanic
    • Victoria: Bass Strait, S oceanic, SE oceanic
    • Western Australia: Central W coast, Great Australian Bight, Lower W coast, N coast, NW coast, NW oceanic, S oceanic, SW coast
  • New Caledonia
  • Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

  • Indonesia
    • Java
  • Philippines
  • Singapore
  • Sri Lanka

Palaearctic Region

  • China (People's Republic)
  • Japan

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
30-Jun-2016 SCAPHOPODA 18-Aug-2023 MODIFIED Ms Anouk Mututantri
22-Jun-2015 MODIFIED