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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:
North, South, Chatham and Three Kings Islands
Geographical Range:
ACFMAnR.Fo.
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

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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