Species Dentalium (Dentalium) octangulatum Donovan, 1803

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dentalium octangulatum Donovan, E. 1803. Natural History of British Shells. Vol. 5. pls 145–180. [162].

  Type data:

   Neotype BMNH 1952.2.23.1, Japan.
  Paratype(s) BMNH 1952.2.23.2–12 11 specimens.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Ludbrook, N.H. 1954. The John Murray Expedition 1933–34. Scientific Reports. 10(2): 91–120 pl. 1. [96 pl. 1 fig. 1].
• Dentalium octogonum Lamarck, J.B.P. 1818. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Vol. 5. Paris. 344 pp. [344].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHP, China;
  Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (presumed lost), China.

 

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] [17]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Ocean, China Seas, Japan, Sri Lanka, Karachi.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coast
  • Queensland: NE coast
  • Western Australia: Central W coast, Lower W coast, N coast, NW coast
• Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

• Sri Lanka

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, mud bottom, sand bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

Collected in littoral sievings and dredged to 1380 m in sandy mud.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)