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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 501030 |
| Scientific Name and Authority: | Paradentalium hexagonum (Gould, 1859) |
| CAAB category: | 23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc. |
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| Family: | 23 501 Dentaliidae (tusk shells) - show full list | |
| Common Name: | [a tusk shell] | |
| Organism Type: | a tusk shell | |
| Synonyms: | Dentalium hexagonum Dentalium sexcostatum | |
| Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
 Commercial species list:  Standard Fish Names List: | |
| Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
| Parent Codes: |
23 501905
Paradentalium spp. |
| Taxon Notes: | Lamprell & Healy (1998) regarded Dentalium sexcostatum and Dentalium hexagonum as separate species. All reviews have relied on limited material, and the types have not been compared. Here we follow Steiner & Kabat (2004), pending a more detailed review. | ||||
| Previous Codes (if any): | 23 501031 | ||||
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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: | Steiner, G. Kabat, A.R., 2004. Catalog of species-group names of Recent and fossil Scaphopoda (Mollusca)., Zoosystema, Vol. 26(4): 549-726. |