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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Mollusca (phylum) » Scaphopoda (class) » Dentaliida (order) » Dentaliidae (family)
| CAAB Code: | 23 501018 |
| Scientific Name and Authority: | Dentalium lessoni Deshayes, 1825 |
| CAAB category: | 23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc. | |
| Family: | 23 501 Dentaliidae (tusk shells) - show full list | |
| Common Name: | [a tusk shell] | |
| Organism Type: | a tusk shell | |
| Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
 Species not on current Australian list, but occuring in adjacent region: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: | |
| Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
| Parent Codes: |
23 501901
Dentalium spp. |
| Taxon Notes: | Lamprell & Healy (1998) recorded this species from Queensland, but this material is considered to actually be Pertusiconcha tridentata, see Scarabino (2008). This species has been recorded from other areas in this region. | ||||
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| Record source: | Lamprell, K. Healy, J., 1998. A revision of the Scaphopoda from Australian waters (Mollusca), Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement, Vol. 24: 1-189. |
| Scientific Name verified against: | Scarabino, V., 2008. New species and new records of scaphopods from New Caledonia. In: Héros V. Cowie, R. Bouchet, P., Editors, Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, 196: 215-268. |