Siphonodentalium colubridens | |
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illustration of Siphonodentalium colubridens, 15 × 2.5 mm. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Scaphopoda |
Order: | Gadilida |
Family: | Gadilidae |
Genus: | Siphonodentalium |
Species: | S. colubridens
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Binomial name | |
Siphonodentalium colubridens
Watson, 1879
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Synonyms | |
Cadulus colubridens R. B. Watson, 1879 |
Siphonodentalium colubridens is a tusk shell or scaphopod in the family Gadilidae of the order Dentaliida. [1]
This species was described from only one specimen collected in 1874 by the H.M.S. Challenger expedition. [2] The original description and a drawing was published in 1879 by Robert Boog Watson, a Scottish malacologist 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 North Island, New Zealand.
The species is described as having a smooth, white shell, with a swelling below the anterior aperture and a length of 15 mm. [2] [3]