Dentalium ecostatum is a species of tusk shell, a marine scaphopod mollusk in the family Dentaliidae.
Dentalium ecostatum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Scaphopoda |
Order: | Dentaliida |
Family: | Dentaliidae |
Genus: | Dentalium |
Species: | D. ecostatum
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Binomial name | |
Dentalium ecostatum T. W. Kirk, 1880
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This species is endemic to New Zealand waters.[1]
References
edit- ^ Powell, A W B (1979). New Zealand Mollusca. Auckland, New Zealand: William Collins Publishers Ltd. pp. 500p. ISBN 0-00-216906-1.