Species Paradentalium hexagonum (Gould, 1859)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dentalium hexagonum 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 2053, Hong Kong.
  Paralectotype(s) MCZ 169184 1 specimen; MCZ.

  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 [88] (referred to a holotype); 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 sexcostatum Sowerby, G.B. 1860. Monograph of the genus Dentalium. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London Vol. 3. 97-104 pls [103 pl. 223 fig. 11].

 

Generic Combinations

• Paradentalium hexagonum (Gould, 1859). —
  Kira, T. 1954. Coloured Illustrations of the Shells of Japan. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 1 viii 172 pp. 67 pls, 24. [80]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Ocean, (Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan).

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: N coast
  • Queensland: NE coast
  • Western Australia: N coast

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, littoral, sand bottom, silt bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

Dredged from 16 to 296 m, in fine, yellow grey mud.

 

General References

Scarabino, V. 2008. Paradentalium hexagonum (Gould, 1859). In: MolluscaBase (2015). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=344527 (Accessed on 2015-08-03)

Steiner, G. & Kabat, A.R. 2004. Catalog of species-group names of Recent and fossil Scaphopoda (Mollusca). Zoosystema 26(4): 549-726 [599]

 

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)