Canadian Register of Marine Species - Dentalium Linnaeus, 1758

CaRMS taxon details

Dentalium Linnaeus, 1758

AphiaID

137886 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137886)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Dentaliidae Children, 1834

Original name

Dentalium Linnaeus, 1758

Direct children (3)

Ordering

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Subgenus Dentalium (Antalis) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 accepted as Antalis H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
1. Species Dentalium (Antalis) agile M. Sars, 1872 accepted as Antalis agilis (M. Sars, 1872) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Dentalium ensiculus Jeffreys, 1877 accepted as Bathoxiphus ensiculus (Jeffreys, 1877) (unaccepted > superseded combination)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

neuter

Original description

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Dentalium Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2025) Canadian Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/CaRMS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137886 on 2025-05-03

Regional species database citation

Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2025). Canadian Register of Marine Species. Dentalium Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/CaRMS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137886 on 2025-05-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2008-12-14 10:05:43Z

changed

Scarabino, Victor

2016-05-02 02:42:48Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2019-05-10 14:41:08Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2024-01-20 09:55:08Z

changed

Köhler, Frank

[taxonomic tree]

original description Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]

additional source Steiner, G.; Kabat, A. R. (2001). Catalogue of supraspecific taxa of Scaphopoda (Mollusca). Zoosystema. 23(3): 433-460., available online at http://web.archive.org/web/20070811162831/http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/zoosyst/z01n3a4.pdf [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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Language	Name
Dutch	olifantstand	[details]

To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Dentalium)
To Genbank
To ITIS

From editor or global species database

Image from typetaxon

Unreviewed

Suberites virgultosus (Bowerbank, 1866) on Dentalium sp.