Species Paradentalium intercalatum (Gould, 1859)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dentalium intercalatum Gould, A.A. 1859. Descriptions of shells collected by the North Pacific Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 7: 161-166 [166].

  Type data:

   Lectotype USNM 24183, China Seas.
  Paralectotype(s) MCZ 169197 (ex NYSM 148, original no. G2408); MCZ 169197 (ex NYSM 148, original no. G2408).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Johnson, R.I. 1964. The recent Mollusca of Augustus Addison Gould: Illustrations of the types described by Gould with a bibliography and catalog of his species. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 239: 1-182 [93]; Lamprell, K.L. & Healy, J.M. 2001. Scaphopoda. pp. 85-128 in Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 17.2 Mollusca: Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xii 353 pp. [Date published 3 July 2001] [99] (interpret Johnson's (1964) incorrect reference to a 'holotype' as a lectotype designation).
• Dentalium bednalli Pilsbry, H.A. & Sharp, B. 1898. Scaphopoda. i-xxxii 145-280 pls 27-37 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] [248].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 72554, Gulf St Vincent, SA
  Comment: see Lamprell, K.L. & Healy, J.M. 1998. A revision of the Scaphopoda from Australian waters (Mollusca). Rec. Aust. Mus. Suppl. 24: 1–189 [59] (topotype, 1 specimen, AM C6970, SA).

  Type locality 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.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Boissevain, M. 1906. The Scaphopoda of the Siboga Expedition treated together with the known Indo-Pacific Scaphopoda. Siboga-Expéditie Report 54: 1-76 [22]

 

Generic Combinations

• Paradentalium intercalatum (Gould, 1859). —
  Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1933. South Australian shells. Part 8. South Australian Naturalist 14: 135-150 pl. 1 figs 1-4a [139]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Ocean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Central E coast, Lower E coast, SE oceanic
  • Northern Territory: N coast
  • Queensland: Central E coast, NE coast, NE oceanic
  • South Australia: S Gulfs coast, S oceanic
  • Western Australia: N coast, NW coast, NW oceanic, SW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, sand bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

Collected in littoral sand and dredged to 668 m in sand.

 

General References

Scarabino, V. 2008. Paradentalium intercalatum (Gould, 1859). In: MolluscaBase (2015). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=344529 (Accessed on 2015-07-17)

Steiner, G. & Kabat, A.R. 2001. Catalogue of supraspecific taxa of Scaphopoda (Mollusca). Zoosystema 23(3): 433-460 [448]

Steiner, G. & Kabat, A.R. 2004. Catalog of species-group names of Recent and fossil Scaphopoda (Mollusca). Zoosystema 26(4): 549-726 [568, 603]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
30-Jun-2016	SCAPHOPODA	03-Aug-2015	MODIFIED	Ms Anouk Mututantri
		12-Feb-2010	(import)