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Antalis pretiosa (Sowerby, 1860) 
AphiaID: 344446

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Scaphopoda (Class) > Dentaliida (Order) > Dentaliidae (Family) > Antalis (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Antalis H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
Synonymised
taxa
  Dentalium pretiosum G. B. Sowerby II, 1860 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Sowerby G. B. 1860. Monograph of the genus Dentalium. Thesaurus Conchyliorum 3: 97-104, pls. 1-3 [223-225]. [details]

additional source: Clark, R. B. 1963. The economics of Dentalium. The Veliger 6(1): 9-19 [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: Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English Wampum tuskshell  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution California [details]
Canada [details]
East North Pacific [details]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Note  Habitat: shelf,  [details]
Image 
Antalis pretiosa
Antalis pretiosa
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:344446
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-04-11 11:44:20Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-12-17 08:21:17Z  changed  Scarabino, Victor
  
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  Citation: Scarabino, V. (2013). Antalis pretiosa (Sowerby, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=344446 on 2013-05-23
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