Dentalium Tiwhana
''Dentalium tiwhana'' is a tusk shell of the family Dentaliidae Dentaliidae is a family of relatively large tusk shells, scaphopod mollusks in the order Dentaliida. Genera * '' Antalis'' H. & A. Adams, 1854 * '' Coccodentalium'' Sacco, 1896 * '' Compressidentalium'' Habe, 1963 * '' Dentalium'' ..., endemic to New Zealand waters. References Dentalium Molluscs described in 1953 {{scaphopod-stub ...
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Richard Dell
Richard Kenneth Dell (11 July 1920 – 6 March 2002) was a New Zealand malacologist. Biography Dell was born in Auckland in 1920. As a young boy, he took an interest in shells, collecting them from the shores of Waitematā Harbour. He even managed to start a "museum" in his backyard. He also helped curate the Auckland War Memorial Museum shell collection. Dell studied at Mount Albert Grammar School and later at the Auckland University College. He took a teacher’s course at Auckland Teachers' College, but World War II delayed his plans to become a teacher. He joined the New Zealand Artillery, serving on Nissan Island, the Solomon Islands, Southwest Asia, Egypt, and Italy. He later published several papers on the land snails he had collected in the Solomon Islands. In 1946, he married botanist and schoolteacher Miriam Matthews, and they had four daughters together. His wife continued working after their marriage and became a well-known women's advocate. After the war, D ...
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Family (biology)
Family ( la, familia, plural ') is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". What belongs to a family—or if a described family should be recognized at all—are proposed and determined by practicing taxonomists. There are no hard rules for describing or recognizing a family, but in plants, they can be characterized on the basis of both vegetative and reproductive features of plant species. Taxonomists often take different positions about descriptions, and there may be no broad consensus across the scientific community for some time. The publishing of new data and opini ...
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Dentaliidae
Dentaliidae is a family of relatively large tusk shells, scaphopod mollusks in the order Dentaliida. Genera * '' Antalis'' H. & A. Adams, 1854 * '' Coccodentalium'' Sacco, 1896 * '' Compressidentalium'' Habe, 1963 * '' Dentalium'' Linnaeus, 1758 Events January–March * January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the sta ... * '' Eudentalium'' Cotton & Godfrey, 1933 * '' Fissidentalium'' Fischer, 1885 * '' Graptacme'' Pilsbry & Sharp, 1897 * '' Paradentalium'' Cotton & Godfrey, 1933 * '' Pictodentalium'' Palmer, 1974 * '' Plagioglypta'' Pilsbry in Pilsbry & Sharp, 1897 * '' Schizodentalium'' Sowerby, 1894 * '' Striodentalium'' Habe, 1964 * '' Tesseracme'' Pilsbry & Sharp, 1897 References * Scaphopods {{scaphopod-stub ...
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Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can be also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or in scientific literature as an ''endemite''. For example '' Cytisus aeolicus'' is an endemite of the Italian flora. '' Adzharia renschi'' was once believed to be an endemite of the Caucasus, but it was later discovered to be a non-indigenous species from South America belonging to a different genus. The extreme opposite of an endemic species is one with a cosmopolitan distribution, having a global or widespread range. A rare alternative term for a species that is endemic is "precinctive", which applies to ...
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List Of Marine Molluscs Of New Zealand
This is a list of the marine molluscs of the country of New Zealand, which are a part of the molluscan fauna of New Zealand, which is a part of the biodiversity of New Zealand. Marine molluscs include marine gastropods (sea snails and sea slugs), bivalves (such as pipis, cockles, oysters, mussels, scallops), octopuses, squid and other classes of Mollusca. This list does not include the land and freshwater species. Aplacophora * '' Proneomenia quincarinata'' Polyplacophora Acanthochitonidae * '' Acanthochitona thileniusi'' * '' Acanthochitona zelandica'' * '' Craspedochiton rubiginosus'' - ''Craspedochiton rubiginosus rubiginosus'', ''Craspedochiton rubiginosus oliveri'' * ''Cryptoconchus porosus'' * ''Notoplax aupouria'' * ''Notoplax cuneata'' * ''Notoplax facilis'' * ''Notoplax latalamina'' * ''Notoplax mariae'' * ''Notoplax violacea'' * ''Notoplax websteri'' Mopaliidae * '' Aerilamma murdochi'' * '' Diaphoroplax biramosus'' * ''Frembleya egregia'' * '' Guildingia obtecta ...
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HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan. The company is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News Corp. The name is a combination of several publishing firm names: Harper & Row, an American publishing company acquired in 1987—whose own name was the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers (founded in 1817) and Row, Peterson & Company—together with Scottish publishing company William Collins, Sons (founded in 1819), acquired in 1989. The worldwide CEO of HarperCollins is Brian Murray. HarperCollins has publishing groups in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, India, and China. The company publishes many different imprints, both former independent publishing houses and new imprints. History Collins Harper Mergers and acquisitions Collins was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corpora ...
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Dentalium
Dentalium may refer to: * ''Dentalium'' (genus), a genus of tooth shells * Dentalium (anthropology) The word dentalium, as commonly used by Native American artists and anthropologists, refers to tooth shells or tusk shells used in indigenous jewelry, adornment, and commerce in western Canada and the United States. These tusk shells are a kind of ...