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Taxonomy
Family:
DENTALIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Scaphopoda (Class)
> Dentaliida (Order)
> Dentaliidae (Family)
> Fissidentalium (Genus)
> zelandicum (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Dentalium (Fissidentalium) P. Fischer, 1895
Synonymised Names:
=Dentalium pacificum Hutton, 1873
=Dentalium zelandicum G.B. Sowerby II, 1860
Images: Fissidentalium zelandicum (Sowerby, 1860)
Holotype of Dentalium pacificum Hutton, 1873, collected NZ region (M.000263). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
DENTALIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Scaphopoda (Class)
> Dentaliida (Order)
> Dentaliidae (Family)
> Fissidentalium (Genus)
> zelandicum (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Dentalium (Fissidentalium) P. Fischer, 1895
Synonymised Names:
=Dentalium pacificum Hutton, 1873
=Dentalium zelandicum G.B. Sowerby II, 1860
Details: Fissidentalium zelandicum (Sowerby, 1860)
Size/Grows to:
Length 101mm, Diameter 11mm
Distribution:
North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands, and Chatham Rise, from 44-549m
Notes:
Tusk Shell, Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.354)
  • Sowerby II, G.B. 1860 Monograph of the genus Dentalium, Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells, 3(20) (p.101) 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