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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 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Dentalium lessoni Deshayes, 1825
Rank:	Species

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.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:b6cf224e-ba11-4440-8ae9-3de2637b1640 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:344160 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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.

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