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Episiphon didymum (Watson, 1879) 
AphiaID: 344398

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Scaphopoda (Class) > Dentaliida (Order) > Gadilinidae (Family) > Episiphon (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Episiphon Pilsbry & Sharp, 1897
Synonymised
taxa
  Episiphon didymus (Watson, 1879)
Sources  original description: Watson R.B. (1879). Mollusca of the H.M.S. Challenger Expedition. II. The Solenoconchia, comprising the genera Dentalium, Siphodentalium, and Cadulus.. Journal of the Linnean Society of London 14 (78): 506-529. [details]

additional source: Watson R. B. (1885-1886). Report on the Scaphopoda and Gasteropoda collected by HMS Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Reports of the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. "Challenger", Zoology : 15 (part 42): 1-756, pl. [pp. 1-608 issued in parts in 1885, pp. 609-756 issued in 1886] Online electronic edition at The Library of 19th Century Science, prepared by Dr. David C. Bossard, Dartmouth College, Hanover New Hampshire, available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-42/htm/doc.html [details]

status source: Steiner G. & Kabat A.R. (2004). Catalog of species-group names of Recent and fossil Scaphopoda (Mollusca). Zoosystema 26 (4) : 549-726., available online at http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/publication/3270_zoo04n4a1.pdf [details]

from synonym: Kraeuter, J. N. 2009. Scaphopoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 745–749 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] [view taxon]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English ovate tuskshell  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
West Central Atlantic [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Note  Habitat: shelf to bathyal [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:344398
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-04-11 11:44:20Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-12-22 14:18:22Z  changed  Scarabino, Victor
  
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  Citation: Scarabino, V. (2013). Episiphon didymum (Watson, 1879). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=344398 on 2013-05-25
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