World Register of Deep-Sea species - Dentaliidae Children, 1834

Deep-Sea taxon details

Dentaliidae Children, 1834

AphiaID

202 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:202)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Parent

Dentaliida

Direct children (8)

Ordering

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Genus Antalis H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
Genus Coccodentalium Sacco, 1896
Genus Compressidentalium T. Habe, 1963
Genus Dentalium Linnaeus, 1758
Genus Fissidentalium P. Fischer, 1885
Genus Graptacme Pilsbry & Sharp, 1897
Genus Plagioglypta Pilsbry, 1898
Genus Striodentalium Habe, 1964

Environment

marine

Original description

Children J.G. (1834). [Mollusca]. Pp. 88-118, in: Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum, ed. 28: 88-118. [Authorship attributed to Children after G. Steiner & A.R. Kabat, 2001, Zoosystema, 23(3): 454-455].
page(s): 112 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Dentaliidae Children, 1834. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=202 on 2026-08-16

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Dentaliidae Children, 1834. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=202 on 2026-08-16

Taxonomic edit history

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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original description Children J.G. (1834). [Mollusca]. Pp. 88-118, in: Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum, ed. 28: 88-118. [Authorship attributed to Children after G. Steiner & A.R. Kabat, 2001, Zoosystema, 23(3): 454-455].
page(s): 112 [details]

additional 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]

status 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	olifantstanden	[details]
English	tuskshellstusks	[details]
French	dentaliidés	[details]
German	ZahnschneckenElefantenzähne	[details]
Japanese	ゾウゲツノガイ科	[details]

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Dentaliidae)
To Genbank
To image gallery of Natural History Museum Rotterdam
To The Arctic Traits Database (0 traits)
To ITIS