Siphonodentalium colubridens is a tusk shell or scaphopod in the family Gadilidae of the order Dentaliida. [1]
| Siphonodentalium colubridens | |
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| illustration of Siphonodentalium colubridens, 15 × 2.5 mm. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Scaphopoda |
| Order: | Gadilida |
| Family: | Gadilidae |
| Genus: | Siphonodentalium |
| Species: | S. colubridens
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| Siphonodentalium colubridens Watson, 1879
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Cadulus colubridens R. B. Watson, 1879 | |
This species was described from only one specimen collected in 1874 by the H.M.S. Challenger expedition.[2] The original description and a drawing was published in 1879 by Robert Boog Watson, a Scottish malacologist who reported on the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda of the Challenger expedition. The specimen was collected at a depth of about 1300 m in ocean waters east of North Island, New Zealand.
The species is described as having a smooth, white shell, with a swelling below the anterior aperture and a length of 15 mm.[2][3]
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Siphonodentalium colubridens (R. B. Watson, 1879). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=344384 on 2019-06-23
- ^ a b Dell, R. K. (April 1957). "A revision of the Recent scaphopod Mollusca of New Zealand". Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 84, part 3. Royal Society of New Zealand: 561–576.
- ^ Powell, William Baden (1979). New Zealand Mollusca. Auckland, New Zealand: William Collins Publishers Ltd. ISBN 978-0-00-216906-6.
- Scarabino, V. (2008). New species and new records of scaphopods from New Caledonia. in: Héros, V. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993). 196: 215-268
- Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.