Species Dentalium (Dentalium) aprinum Linnaeus, 1767

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• Dentalium aprinum 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].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) LS No. 611, Indian Ocean;
  Status unknown, Philippines.
• 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) NHMW, locality unknown.
• Dentalium striatulum Gmelin, J.F. 1788. In Caroli a Linné, Systema Naturae. Edn 13. Leiden : Delamolliere. [3738].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Sicily.
• Dentalium aprinum incolor Boissevain, M. 1906. The Scaphopoda of the Siboga Expedition treated together with the known Indo-Pacific Scaphopoda. Siboga-Expéditie Report 54: 1-76 [10] [as Dentalium aprinum var. incolor].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMA 3.06.055, Indonesia, off Lirung, Sila Babu Is., 'Siboga' Stn 133.
  Paralectotype(s) ZMA 3.06.006 3 specimens; ZMA 3.06.007 1 specimen.

  Subsequent designation 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. [198].
• Dentalium caprinum Anton, H.E. 1838. Verzeichniss der Conchylien welche sich in der Sammlung von Hermann Eduard Anton befinden. Halle : Eduard Anton xvi + 110 pp. [imprint date 1839; see Cernohorsky (1978: 299) for publication dates] [25].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, locality unknown.
• Dentalium aprinum taiwanum Kuroda, T. 1941. A catalogue of molluscan shells from Taiwan (Formosa), with descriptions of new species. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science and Agriculture, Taihoku Imperial University 22(4, Geology 17): 65-216, pls 8-14 [196].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NSMT, Taiwan (as Formosa), Takao.
• Dentalium interstriatum Sowerby, G.B. 1860. Monograph of the genus Dentalium. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London Vol. 3. 97-104 pls [102].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1950.11.28.42–44 3 specimens, Philippines, Bohol Is.;
  Status unknown.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Habe, T. 1964. Fauna Japonica. Scaphopoda (Mollusca). Tokyo : Biogeographical Society of Japan 59 pp. 5 pls. [7]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific: Madagascar to Philippines, New Caledonia and Australia.

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 Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: Gulf of Carpentaria, N coast
  • Queensland: Gulf of Carpentaria, NE coast
  • Western Australia: N coast, NW coast

Oriental Region

• Indonesia
• Philippines

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Sand bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

5-123 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 [20]

Scarabino, V. 2008. Dentalium aprinum. In: MolluscaBase (2015). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=211854 (Accessed on 2015-07-17)

Steiner, G. & Kabat, A.R. 2004. Catalog of species-group names of Recent and fossil Scaphopoda (Mollusca). Zoosystema 26(4): 549-726 [564]

 

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
		16-Sep-2013	MODIFIED