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WoRMS taxon details

Paradentalium americanum (Chenu, 1843)

AphiaID

344520 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:344520)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Paradentalium Cotton & Godfrey, 1933

Original name

Dentalium americanum Chenu, 1843

Synonymised names

Dentalium (Dentalium) rebeccaense J. B. Henderson, 1920 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Dentalium (Dentalium) texasianum R. A. Philippi, 1849 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Dentalium (Dentalium) texasianum cestum J. B. Henderson, 1920 · alternative representation

Dentalium (Dentalium) texasianum rioense J. B. Henderson, 1920 · alternative representation

Dentalium (Dentalium) texasianum texasianum R. A. Philippi, 1849 · alternative representation

Dentalium americanum Chenu, 1843 · unaccepted (original combination)

Dentalium rebeccaense J. B. Henderson, 1920 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Dentalium texasianum R. A. Philippi, 1849 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Dentalium texasianum cestum J. B. Henderson, 1920 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Dentalium texasianum rioense J. B. Henderson, 1920 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Dentalium texasianum texasianum R. A. Philippi, 1849 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Dentalium americanum Chenu, 1843) Chenu, J. C. (1842-1854). Illustrations conchyliologiques, ou description et figures de toutes les coquilles connues, vivantes et fossiles. Paris. Paris. 85 parts in 4 volumes. [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Paradentalium americanum (Chenu, 1843). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=344520 on 2026-09-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-04-11 11:44:20Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2008-12-27 08:55:22Z

checked

Scarabino, Victor

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Dentalium americanum Chenu, 1843) Chenu, J. C. (1842-1854). Illustrations conchyliologiques, ou description et figures de toutes les coquilles connues, vivantes et fossiles. Paris. Paris. 85 parts in 4 volumes. [details]

original description (of Dentalium (Dentalium) rebeccaense J. B. Henderson, 1920) Henderson, J. B. (1920). A monograph of the east American scaphopod mollusks. United States National Museum Bulletin. 111(20): 1-177., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33255 [details]

original description (of Dentalium (Dentalium) texasianum cestum J. B. Henderson, 1920) Henderson, J. B. (1920). A monograph of the east American scaphopod mollusks. United States National Museum Bulletin. 111(20): 1-177., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33255
page(s): 29, pl. 2, figs. 1, 4, 8 [details]

original description (of Dentalium (Dentalium) texasianum rioense J. B. Henderson, 1920) Henderson, J. B. (1920). A monograph of the east American scaphopod mollusks. United States National Museum Bulletin. 111(20): 1-177., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33255
page(s): 29, pl. 2, figs. 2-3 [details]

original description (of Dentalium texasianum R. A. Philippi, 1849) Philippi, R. A. (1849). Centuria altera testaceorum novorum. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie. 5(7): 99-112 [January 1849]; 5(8): 123-128; 5(9): 129-144: 5(10): 145-150 [all March 1849]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16292293
page(s): 144 [details]

Taxonomy

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 https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/zoosystema/26/4/catalogue-des-noms-du-groupe-espece-de-scaphopodes-mollusca-recents-et-fossiles [details]

Other

additional source 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]

additional source Scarabino V. 1975. - Scaphopoda: pp. 180-186, pl. 58-59, in Rios E.C. (ed.) Brazilian marine mollusks iconography. Fundaçao Universidade do Rio Grande, Centro de Ciências do Mar, Museu Oceanográfico. Porto Alegre, Rio Grande-RS. [details]