''Siphonodentalium colubridens'' is a
tusk shell or scaphopod in the
family Gadilidae
Gadilidae is a family of tusk shells in the order Gadilida.
Genera
* '' Bathycadulus'' Scarabino, 1995
* ''Cadulus
''Cadulus'' is a large genus of small tusk shells in the family Gadilidae. It contains over fifty-one described specie ...
of the order
Dentaliida.
[MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Siphonodentalium colubridens (R. B. Watson, 1879). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=344384 on 2019-06-23]
This species was described from only one specimen collected in 1874 by the ''
H.M.S. Challenger'' expedition.
The original description and a drawing was published in 1879 by
Robert Boog Watson
Robert Boog Watson FRSE (26 September 1823 – 23 June 1910) was a Scottish malacologist and minister of the Free Church of Scotland best known as the author of the report on the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda collected during the H.M.S. ''Cha ...
, a
Scottish
Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including:
*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
malacologist who reported on the
Scaphopoda and
Gastropoda
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. ...
of the Challenger expedition. The specimen was collected at a depth of about 1300 m in ocean waters east of
North Island
The North Island, also officially named Te Ika-a-Māui, is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the larger but much less populous South Island by the Cook Strait. The island's area is , making it the world's 14th-largest ...
,
New Zealand.
The species is described as having a smooth, white shell, with a swelling below the anterior
aperture and a length of 15 mm.
References
* Scarabino, V. (2008). New species and new records of scaphopods from New Caledonia. in: Héros, V. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993). 196: 215-268
* Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
External links
Watson, R.B. (1879). Mollusca of H.M.S. 'Challenger' Expedition. II. The Solenoconchia, comprising the genera Dentalium, Siphodentalium, and Cadulus. Journal of the Linnean Society (London). 14: 508-529
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Scaphopods
Molluscs described in 1879