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Dentalium carinatum O. G. Costa, 1851
416437 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:416437)
uncertain > nomen dubium (not scaphopoda)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Costa O. G. (1838-1873). Fauna del Regno di Napoli ossia enumerazione di tutti gli animali che abitano le diverse regioni di questo regno e le acque che le bagnano contenente la descrizione de nuovi o poco esattamente conosciuti con figure ricavate da originali viventi e dipinte. [Fauna of the Kingdom of Naples or enumeration of all the animals that inhabit the different regions of this kingdom and the waters that bathe them containing the description of new or little exactly known ones with figures taken from living originals and painted]. <em>In: Fauna del Regno di Napoli.</em> [325 pp. with each chapter paginated separately, 42 pl. also numbered separately according to chapters]., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/toc/?PID=PPN62065239X
page(s): Gasteropodi Tubibranchi, gen. Dentalium p. 24 [details]
page(s): Gasteropodi Tubibranchi, gen. Dentalium p. 24 [details]
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Costa O. G. (1838-1873). Fauna del Regno di Napoli ossia enumerazione di tutti gli animali che abitano le diverse regioni di questo regno e le acque che le bagnano contenente la descrizione de nuovi o poco esattamente conosciuti con figure ricavate da originali viventi e dipinte. [Fauna of the Kingdom of Naples or enumeration of all the animals that inhabit the different regions of this kingdom and the waters that bathe them containing the description of new or little exactly known ones with figures taken from living originals and painted]. <em>In: Fauna del Regno di Napoli.</em> [325 pp. with each chapter paginated separately, 42 pl. also numbered separately according to chapters]., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/toc/?PID=PPN62065239X
page(s): Gasteropodi Tubibranchi, gen. Dentalium p. 24 [details]
status source Pilsbry, H. A. & Sharp, B. (1897-1898). <i>Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species</i>. Ser. 1. Vol. 17: Scaphopoda. pp i-xxxii, 1-348, pls 1-48. Philadelphia, published by the Conchological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences. [pp. 1-80, pls. 1-9, 11 May 1897; pp. 81-144, Pl. 10-26, 15 Oct 1897; pp. 145-224, Pl. 27-37, 03 May 1898; pp. 225-348, i-xxxii, Pl. 38-48, 7 Dec 1898]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41487
page(s): 242 [details]
page(s): Gasteropodi Tubibranchi, gen. Dentalium p. 24 [details]
status source Pilsbry, H. A. & Sharp, B. (1897-1898). <i>Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species</i>. Ser. 1. Vol. 17: Scaphopoda. pp i-xxxii, 1-348, pls 1-48. Philadelphia, published by the Conchological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences. [pp. 1-80, pls. 1-9, 11 May 1897; pp. 81-144, Pl. 10-26, 15 Oct 1897; pp. 145-224, Pl. 27-37, 03 May 1898; pp. 225-348, i-xxxii, Pl. 38-48, 7 Dec 1898]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41487
page(s): 242 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment Costa already noted that this might be an annelid (thus serpulid), and it is catalogued as such by Pilsbry & Sharp. However, the original description mentions a dorsal keel, it thus cannot be a Ditrupa. Pteropod?? [details]
