Species Fissidentalium yokoyamai (Makiyama, 1931)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dentalium yokoyamai Makiyama, J. 1931. Stratigraphy of the Kakegawa Pliocene in Totomi. Memoirs of the College of Science, Kyoto Imperial University B 7(1): 1-53 pls 1-3 [44].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (fossil), Koshiba Zone, Pleistocene, Japan.
• Dentalium complexum Yokoyama, M. 1920. Fossils from the Miura Peninsula and its immediate north. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo 39(6): 1-193 pls 1-20 [101] [junior homonym of Dentalium complexum Dall, 1895].

  Type data:

   Holotype KIU, Koshiba, Yokosuka City, Honshu (Koshiba zone, Pleistocene), Japan.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Habe, T. 1963. A classification of the scaphopod mollusks found in Japan and its adjacent areas. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 6: 252-281 [259]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

China Sea, Japan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: NW coast, W oceanic

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Mud bottom, sand bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

Trawled in sand and mud from 100 to 504 m.

 

General References

Kira, T. 1962. Shells of the Western Pacific in colour. Tokyo. 224 pp. 72 pls. [117] (as Dentalium (Fissidentalium) yokoyamai)

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 [84]

Scarabino, V. 2008. Fissidentalium yokoyamai (Makiyama, 1931). In: MolluscaBase (2015). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=344223 (Accessed on 2015-08-06)

Steiner, G. & Kabat, A.R. 2004. Catalog of species-group names of Recent and fossil Scaphopoda (Mollusca). Zoosystema 26(4): 549-726 [664]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
30-Jun-2016	SCAPHOPODA	06-Aug-2015	MODIFIED	Ms Anouk Mututantri
		12-Feb-2010	(import)