Species Dentalium (Dentalium) bisexangulatum Hanley in Sowerby, 1860

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dentalium bisexangulatum Hanley, S. in Sowerby, G.B. 1860. Monograph of the genus Dentalium. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or Monographs of Genera of Shells. London Vol. 3 pp. 97–104 pls 1–3. [102, pl. 223 fig. 8].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1993009 (from syntype lot), Java, Indonesia.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1993009 2 specimens (remains of syntype lot).

  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 [65].

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific: Red Sea, East Africa to Australia, Philippines, Japan. Gulf of Suez, Mozambique, Java.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Mozambique

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: N coast

Oriental Region

• Indonesia
  • Java
• Singapore

Ecological Descriptors

Littoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Shallow infaunal, bottom type unknown, dredged in sand to 720 m.

 

General References

Brazier, J. 1877 [imprint 1878]. Continuation of the Molluscs collected during the Chevert Expedition. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2(1): 55-60 (erroneous record from Torres Strait and vicinity)

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 [65]

Steiner, G. & Kabat, A.R. 2004. Catalog of species-group names of Recent and fossil Scaphopoda (Mollusca). Zoosystema 26(4): 549-726 [569]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
30-Jun-2016	SCAPHOPODA	17-Jul-2015	MODIFIED	Ms Anouk Mututantri
		12-Feb-2010	(import)