Species Dentalium (Pictodentalium) formosum Adams & Reeve, 1850

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dentalium formosum Adams, A. & Reeve, L. 1850. Mollusca. pp. 72–87 pls 20–24 in Adams, A. (ed.) The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang; under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher. London. [72].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1951.2.14.1–3, Sooloo Archipelago, outside coral reef near city of Sooloo, 16 fathoms [29 m].
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1951.2.14.1–3 2 specimens (one specimen broken and glued, other broken), same data as for holotype.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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 [72].
• Dentalium festivum Sowerby, G.B. 1913. Description of new species of Mollusca from New Caledonia, Japan and other localities. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 11: 5-10 [8].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1914.4.21, New Caledonia.
• Dentalium formosum hirasei Kira, T. 1959. Coloured Illustrations of the Shells of Japan. Osaka : Hoikusha Publishing Co. Ltd (revised edn) Vol. 7 240 pp. 72 pls. [105].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Honshû, Japan, 37 m.
• Fissidentalium (Pictodentalium) formosum harrisoni Habe, T. 1970. A new subspecies of Fissidentalium formosum (Adams and Reeve) from the South China Sea. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2(1): 95-96 [95].

  Type data:

   Holotype NSMT MO37303, South China Sea.
  Paratype(s) NSMT MO37304.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [72]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Philippines, New Guinea, Japan, New Caledonia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: Central W coast, Lower W coast, NW coast
• New Caledonia

Oriental Region

• Philippines

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Sand bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

Dredged in coarse sand and coral rubble, 20 to 50 m.

 

General References

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 [72]

Scarabino, V. 2008. Pictodentalium formosum (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850). In: MolluscaBase (2015). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=344537 (Accessed on 2015-07-31)

Steiner, G. & Kabat, A.R. 2004. Catalog of species-group names of Recent and fossil Scaphopoda (Mollusca). Zoosystema 26(4): 549-726 [592]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
30-Jun-2016	SCAPHOPODA	31-Jul-2015	MODIFIED	Ms Anouk Mututantri
		12-Feb-2010	(import)