Genus Paradentalium Cotton & Godfrey, 1933

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

  Type species:

   Dentalium intercalatum Gould, 1859 by original designation.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Tasmania Province (10), 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), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), 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), 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)

Notes

Emerson (1952a: 299; 1962: 467) pointed out that Cotton & Godfrey (1933) had misidentified specimens of Dentalium bednalli Pilsbry & Sharp, 1897 as representing the type species, Dentalium intercalatum Gould, 1859.
However, Verco (1904: 135) had synonymized these two species. Subsequently, Paradentalium was used as a valid genus by Palmer (1974: 118) with the type species as Dentalium bednalli, and by Scarabino (1995: 194, 216) who listed the type species as Dentalium intercalatum.
Most recently, Lamprell & Healy (1998: 59, 61) confirmed the synonymy of Verco (1904), thereby rejecting the conclusions of Emerson and Palmer. (Steiner & Kabat, 2001)

General References

Steiner, G. & Kabat, A.R. 2001. Catalogue of supraspecific taxa of Scaphopoda (Mollusca). Zoosystema 23(3): 433-460 [447]

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