Cadulus colubridens
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| Cadulus colubridens | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Scaphopoda |
| Order: | Dentaliida |
| Family: | Gadilidae |
| Genus: | Cadulus |
| Species: | C. colubridens |
| Binomial name | |
| Cadulus colubridens Watson, 1879 |
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Cadulus colubridens is a tusk shell, or Scaphopoda, in the family Gadilidae of the order Dentaliida, that has been described from only one specimen collected in 1874 by the H.M.S. Challenger expedition.[1] 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 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.[1][2]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Dell, R. K. (04-1957). "A revision of the Recent scaphopod Mollusca of New Zealand". Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand (Royal Society of New Zealand) 84, part 3: 561–576.
- ^ Powell, William Baden (1979). New Zealand Mollusca. Auckland, New Zealand: William Collins Publishers Ltd. ISBN 0-00-216906-1.
