Species Laevidentalium erectum (Sowerby, 1860)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dentalium erectum Sowerby, G.B. 1860. Monograph of the genus Dentalium. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London Vol. 3. 97-104 pls [99, pl. 225 fig. 55].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1993130, Sydney, NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 2 specimens (from same lot as lectotype).

  Subsequent designation 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 [109].
• Antalis erecta Angas, G.F. 1867. A list of species of marine Mollusca found in Port Jackson harbour, New South Wales, and on the adjacent coasts, with notes on their habits, etc. Part I. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 185–233 [Date published 14 Feb. 1867] [220].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Port Jackson, NSW.
• Dentalium (Laevidentalium) pluteum Colman, P.H. 1958. New South Wales Dentaliidae (Phylum Mollusca, Class Scaphopoda). Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1956–7: 140-147 [143].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C18217, off Wollongong, NSW, 183 m (100 fathoms).
  Paratype(s) AM C173268 2 specimens.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [109]

 

Distribution

States

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

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), Cape Province (20), 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), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), 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), Central Western Transition (5), 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, Great Barrier Reef, NE coast, NE oceanic, SE oceanic
  • South Australia: Great Australian Bight, S Gulfs coast, S oceanic
  • Tasmania: Bass Strait, Tas. coast
  • Victoria: Bass Strait, S oceanic, SE oceanic
  • Western Australia: Central W coast, Great Australian Bight, Lower W coast, NW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, sand bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

Shallow infaunal, dredged in sand and gravel from 11 to 2569 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 [109]

Scarabino, V. 2008. Laevidentalium erectum. In: MolluscaBase (2015). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=344233 (Accessed on 2015-07-24)

Steiner, G. & Kabat, A.R. 2004. Catalog of species-group names of Recent and fossil Scaphopoda (Mollusca). Zoosystema 26(4): 549-726 [588, 631]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
30-Jun-2016	SCAPHOPODA	31-Jul-2015	MODIFIED	Ms Anouk Mututantri
		12-Feb-2010	(import)