Species Dentalium (Dentalium) elephantinum Linnaeus, 1758

Museums

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• Dentalium elephantinum Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [785].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZIUU (see Wallin, N. 1992. Uppsala University Zoological Museum. Catalogue of type specimens. 4. Linnean specimens. Uppsala 233 pp.), Ambon (as Amboyna), Indonesia; LS (Wheeler, A. 1993. (MS). Zoological collections. List of specimens and indices, Linnean Types in the Linnean Society of London. Mollusca 2–6), Ambon (as Amboyna), Indonesia.

  Secondary source:

   Linnaeus, C. 1767. Systema naturae, per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum caracteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Holmiae [= Stockholm] : L. Salvii Tomus I. Regnum Animale(pars 2) Editio duodecima, reformata [3 vols., 1766–68], pp. 533–1327. [1263].
• Dentalium striatum Born, I. von 1778. Testacea musei Caesarei Vindobonensis quae jussu Mariae Theresia Augustae disposuit et descripsit. Vindobonae : J.P. Krauss 442 pp. [431] [in part].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (presumed lost), locality unknown; NHMW, locality unknown.
• Dentalium arcuatum Gmelin, J.F. 1788. In Caroli a Linné, Systema Naturae. Edn 13. Leiden : Delamolliere. [3738].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (presumed lost), locality unknown.
• Dentalium viridis Perry, G. 1811. Arcana : or the Museum of Natural History : containing the most recent discovered objects ... with ... plates, and ... descriptions ; with extracts relating to Animals, and remarks of celebrated travellers, &c. London : James Stratford pl. XLIX-LXXXIV.

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, South Seas.

  Secondary source:

   Habe, T. 1964. Fauna Japonica. Scaphopoda (Mollusca). Tokyo : Biogeographical Society of Japan 59 pp. 5 pls. [6].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Pilsbry, H.A. & Sharp, B. 1897. Scaphopoda. 1-144 pls 1-26 in Tryon, G.W. Jr (ed.). Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : Academy of Sciences Vol. 17. [1897: 1–144 pls 1–26; 1898: i–xxxii + 145–280 pls 27–37 Vanatta, E.G. 1927. Dates of publication of the parts of the Manual of Conchology, First Series (Cephalopoda, Marine Gastropoda, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda). Nautilus 40: 96–99] [1] (for D. arcuatum)
• Boissevain, M. 1906. The Scaphopoda of the Siboga Expedition treated together with the known Indo-Pacific Scaphopoda. Siboga-Expéditie Report 54: 1-76 [8] (for D. striatum)

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Ocean. Red Sea to Australia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coast
  • Queensland: NE coast

Ecological Descriptors

Littoral, sand bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

Shallow infaunal, coral sand, water in depths to 40 m.

 

General References

Scarabino, V. 1995. Scaphopoda of the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans, with description of 3 new genera and 42 new species. In Bouchet, P. (ed.) Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM. Vol 14. Mém. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris 167: 189–379.

Scarabino, V. 2008. Dentalium elephantinum. In: MolluscaBase (2015). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=211855 (Accessed on 2015-07-22)

Steiner, G. & Kabat, A.R. 2004. Catalog of species-group names of Recent and fossil Scaphopoda (Mollusca). Zoosystema 26(4): 549-726 [587]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
30-Jun-2016	SCAPHOPODA	22-Jul-2015	MODIFIED	Ms Anouk Mututantri
		04-Sep-2014	MODIFIED