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Taxonomy
Family:
DENTALIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Scaphopoda (Class)
> Dentaliida (Order)
> Dentaliidae (Family)
> Antalis (Genus)
> suteri (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 (Episiphon) arenarium Suter, 1907
=Dentalium arenarium Suter, 1907
=Dentalium suteri Emerson, 1954
Images: Antalis suteri (Emerson, 1954)
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Taxonomy
Family:
DENTALIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Scaphopoda (Class)
> Dentaliida (Order)
> Dentaliidae (Family)
> Antalis (Genus)
> suteri (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 (Episiphon) arenarium Suter, 1907
=Dentalium arenarium Suter, 1907
=Dentalium suteri Emerson, 1954
Details: Antalis suteri (Emerson, 1954)
Size/Grows to:
Length 40mm, Diameter 4mm
Distribution:
South Island, Stewart and Chatham Islands
Geographical Range:
CFM
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)
  • Emerson, W.K. 1954 Notes on the scaphopod molluscs: rectifications of nomenclature, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 67 (p.185) Original Description

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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