Siphonodentalium colubridens explained

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.^[3]

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

Notes and References

1. 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
2. Dell. R. K.. A revision of the Recent scaphopod Mollusca of New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . April 1957. 84, part 3. 561–576. Royal Society of New Zealand.
3. Book: Powell, William Baden. New Zealand Mollusca. William Collins Publishers Ltd. Auckland, New Zealand. 1979. 978-0-00-216906-6.