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Taxonomy
Family:
DENTALIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Scaphopoda (Class)
> Dentaliida (Order)
> Dentaliidae (Family)
> Antalis (Genus)
> nana (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Dentale da Costa, 1778
=Dentalium (Antalis) H. & A. Adams, 1854
=Dentalium (Entalis) Gray, 1847
=Entaliopsis Newton & G.F. Harris, 1894
=Entalis Gray, 1847
Synonymised Names:
=Dentalium huttoni T.W. Kirk, 1880
=Dentalium marwicki Mestayer, 1926
=Dentalium nanum Hutton, 1873
Images: Antalis nana Hutton, 1873
Holotype of Dentalium huttoni Kirk 1880, collected 'Wellington', NZ (M.000261). 21mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
DENTALIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Scaphopoda (Class)
> Dentaliida (Order)
> Dentaliidae (Family)
> Antalis (Genus)
> nana (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Dentale da Costa, 1778
=Dentalium (Antalis) H. & A. Adams, 1854
=Dentalium (Entalis) Gray, 1847
=Entaliopsis Newton & G.F. Harris, 1894
=Entalis Gray, 1847
Synonymised Names:
=Dentalium huttoni T.W. Kirk, 1880
=Dentalium marwicki Mestayer, 1926
=Dentalium nanum Hutton, 1873
Details: Antalis nana Hutton, 1873
Size/Grows to:
Length 48mm, Diameter 4mm
Distribution:
Three Kings Islands, North Island and northern South Island, from 0-357m
Type Data:
  • Castlecliff, Wanganui, NZ (Fossil), (holotype of Dentalium marwicki Mestayer, 1926)
  • Wellington area, NZ, (holotype of Dentalium huttoni T.W. Kirk, 1880)
Notes:
Tusk Shell, Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.353)
  • Hutton, F.W. 1873 Catalogue of the Tertiary Mollusca and Echinodermata of New Zealand, in the collection of the Colonial Museum, Didsbury, Government Printer, Wellington (p.1) Original Description

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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