| Compressidentalium | |
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| Shell of Compressidentalium compressiusculum (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Scaphopoda |
| Order: | Dentaliida |
| Family: | Dentaliidae |
| Genus: | Compressidentalium Habe, 1963 |
| Type species | |
| Compressidentalium hungerfordi (Pilsbry & Sharp, 1897) | |
| Synonyms | |
Fissidentalium (Compressidentalium) Habe, 1963 | |
Compressidentalium is a genus of tusk shells, marine scaphopod mollusks. [1]
Species within the genus Compressidentalium include:
The tusk shells or tooth shells, technically the Scaphopoda, are members of a class of shelled marine mollusc with worldwide distribution, and are the only class of exclusively infaunal marine molluscs. Shells of species within this class range in length 0.5–18 cm (0.20–7.09 in). Members of the order Dentaliida tend to be larger than those of the order Gadilida.
Gadilida is an order of very small tusk shells, marine scaphopod molluscs.
Siphonodentalium colubridens is a tusk shell or scaphopod in the family Gadilidae of the order Dentaliida.
Dentalium is a large genus of tooth shells or tusk shells, marine scaphopod molluscs in the family Dentaliidae. The genus contains 50 described species and about 50 extinct species.
Gadila is a genus of small tusk shells, which are marine scaphopod molluscs in the family Gadilidae.
Entalinidae is a family of tusk shells, marine scaphopod mollusks in the order Gadilida.
Costentalina is a genus of medium-sized tusk shells, marine scaphopod molluscs in the family Entalinidae.
Antalis is a genus of tusk shells, marine scaphopod mollusks.
Polyschides is a genus of gadilid tusk shell (scaphopod).
Fustiaria is a genus of scaphopods in the order Dentaliida and is the only genus comprising the family Fustiariidae, with 24 species.
Siphonodentalium is a genus of small tusk shells in the family Gadilidae.
Gadilinidae is a family of relatively large tusk shells, scaphopod mollusks in the order Dentaliida.
Laevidentaliidae is a family of relatively large tusk shells, scaphopod mollusks in the order Dentaliida.
Fissidentalium is a genus of molluscs belonging to the family Dentaliidae.
Calliodentalium is a genus of scaphopodan molluscs. It is monotypic within the family Calliodentaliidae. It is known from the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.
Pulsellidae is a family of molluscs belonging to the suborder Gadilimorpha in the order Gadilida.
Pictodentalium is a genus of molluscs belonging to the family Dentaliidae.
Pliocardia is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Vesicomyidae.
Saccella is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Nuculanidae.
Víctor Scarabino was a Uruguayan marine biologist and malacologist. He served as the director of the National Museum of Natural History of Uruguay from 2009 to 2011 and was an honorary researcher at the institution from the late 1960s until his death.
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