Dentaliidae is a

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of relatively large tusk shells, scaphopod

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s in the order

Dentaliida Dentaliida is one of the two orders of scaphopod mollusks, commonly known as elephant's tusk shells. The order Dentaliida contains most of the larger scaphopods, and is distinguished from the other order (the Gadilidae) by the shape of its she ...

Genera

* '' Antalis'' H. & A. Adams, 1854 * '' Coccodentalium'' Sacco, 1896 * '' Compressidentalium'' Habe, 1963 * '' Dentalium''

Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...

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