''Siphonodentalium colubridens'' is a tusk shell or scaphopod in the

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Gadilidae Gadilidae is a family of tusk shells in the order Gadilida. Genera * '' Bathycadulus'' Scarabino, 1995 * ''Cadulus ''Cadulus'' is a large genus of small tusk shells in the family Gadilidae. It contains over fifty-one described specie ...

of the order Dentaliida. MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Siphonodentalium colubridens (R. B. Watson, 1879). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=344384 on 2019-06-23 This species was described from only one specimen collected in 1874 by the '' H.M.S. Challenger'' expedition. The original description and a drawing was published in 1879 by

Robert Boog Watson Robert Boog Watson FRSE (26 September 1823 – 23 June 1910) was a Scottish malacologist and minister of the Free Church of Scotland best known as the author of the report on the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda collected during the H.M.S. ''Challen ...

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who reported on the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda of the Challenger expedition. The specimen was collected at a depth of about 1300 m in ocean waters east of

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. The species is described as having a smooth, white shell, with a swelling below the anterior

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and a length of 15 mm.

References

* Scarabino, V. (2008). New species and new records of scaphopods from New Caledonia. in: Héros, V. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993). 196: 215-268 * Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.

External links

Watson, R.B. (1879). Mollusca of H.M.S. 'Challenger' Expedition. II. The Solenoconchia, comprising the genera Dentalium, Siphodentalium, and Cadulus. Journal of the Linnean Society (London). 14: 508-529
{{Taxonbar, from=Q3801472, from2=Q5016624 Scaphopods Molluscs described in 1879