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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 and Chatham Islands
Geographical Range:
ACFM
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

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