| Siphonodentalium colubridens | |
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| illustration of Siphonodentalium colubridens, 15 × 2.5 mm. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Scaphopoda |
| Order: | Gadilida |
| Family: | Gadilidae |
| Genus: | Siphonodentalium |
| Species: | S. colubridens |
| Binomial name | |
| Siphonodentalium colubridens Watson, 1879 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Cadulus colubridens R. B. Watson, 1879 | |
Siphonodentalium colubridens is a tusk shell or scaphopod in the family Gadilidae of the order Dentaliida.
This species was described from only one specimen collected in 1874 by the H.M.S. Challenger expedition. The original description and a drawing was published in 1879 by Robert Boog Watson, a Scottish malacologist who reported on the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda of the Challenger expedition. The specimen was collected at a depth of about 1300 m in ocean waters east of North Island, New Zealand.
The species is described as having a smooth, white shell, with a swelling below the anterior aperture and a length of 15 mm.
References
- MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Siphonodentalium colubridens (R. B. Watson, 1879). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=344384 on 2019-06-23
- ^ Dell, R. K. (April 1957). "A revision of the Recent scaphopod Mollusca of New Zealand". Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 84, part 3. Royal Society of New Zealand: 561–576.
- Powell, William Baden (1979). New Zealand Mollusca. Auckland, New Zealand: William Collins Publishers Ltd. ISBN 978-0-00-216906-6.
- Scarabino, V. (2008). New species and new records of scaphopods from New Caledonia. in: Héros, V. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993). 196: 215-268
- Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
External links
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Siphonodentalium colubridens | |
| Cadulus colubridens | |