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Dentalium nigrum Lamarck, 1818
416750 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:416750)
uncertain > nomen dubium (Not a scaphopod according to Steiner & Kabat, 2004.)
Species
marine
Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879
page(s): 345 [details]
page(s): 345 [details]
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Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879
page(s): 345 [details]
additional 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): 243 [details]
additional source Chenu, J. C. (1842-1854). Illustrations conchyliologiques, ou description et figures de toutes les coquilles connues, vivantes et fossiles. <em>Paris.</em> Paris. 85 parts in 4 volumes. [details]
additional source Deshayes, G. P. (1826). Anatomie et monographie du genre Dentale. <em>Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris.</em> (2) 2(2): 321-378, 4 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3591690
page(s): 337 [details]
page(s): 345 [details]
additional 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): 243 [details]
additional source Chenu, J. C. (1842-1854). Illustrations conchyliologiques, ou description et figures de toutes les coquilles connues, vivantes et fossiles. <em>Paris.</em> Paris. 85 parts in 4 volumes. [details]
additional source Deshayes, G. P. (1826). Anatomie et monographie du genre Dentale. <em>Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris.</em> (2) 2(2): 321-378, 4 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3591690
page(s): 337 [details]
Unreviewed
Editor's comment according to Deshayes (1825: 337) an insect larva; referred to the serpulid Ditrupa by Pilsbry & Sharp (1898: 243). However, the wide mouth, not constricted, depicted by Chenu (7 pl.7, fig.9) is indicative of a real scaphopod, not serpulid [details]
