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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
GADILIDAE: SIPHONODENTALIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Scaphopoda (Class)
> Gadilida (Order)
> Gadilimorpha (Suborder)
> Gadilidae (Family)
> Siphonodentaliinae (Subfamily)
> Siphonodentalium (Genus)
> delicatulum (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Siphodentalium Monterosato, 1874
Synonymised Names:
=Cadulus delicatulus Suter, 1913
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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
GADILIDAE: SIPHONODENTALIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Scaphopoda (Class)
> Gadilida (Order)
> Gadilimorpha (Suborder)
> Gadilidae (Family)
> Siphonodentaliinae (Subfamily)
> Siphonodentalium (Genus)
> delicatulum (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Siphodentalium Monterosato, 1874
Synonymised Names:
=Cadulus delicatulus Suter, 1913
Details: Siphonodentalium delicatulum (Suter, 1913)
Size/Grows to:
Length 13mm, Diameter 2mm
Distribution:
Northland to Fiordland, Chatham Rise and Chatham Islands
Geographical Range:
ACFM
Notes:
Tusk Shell, Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Scarabino, V. 1995 Scaphopoda of the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans, with descriptions of 3 new genera and 42 new species. In Bouchet, P. (ed), Resultats des Campagnes Musorstom volume 14, Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 167 (p.333)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.354)
  • Suter, H. 1913 Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca, John MacKay, Government Printer, Wellington Original Description

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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