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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Scaphopoda
Ordo: Dentaliida
Familia: Dentaliidae
Genera: Antalis - Coccodentalium - Compressidentalium - Dentalium - Eudentalium - Fissidentalium - Graptacme - Paradentalium - Pictodentalium - Plagioglypta - Schizodentalium - Striodentalium - Tesseracme

Name

Dentaliidae Children, 1834
References

Children J.G. (1834). Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum. 28th ed. (authorship inferred on the grounds that Children was in charge of the mollusc collection at that time, and was credited with the authorship of the conchological section of the “Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum” for 1838).

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Dentaliidae in the World Register of Marine Species

Vernacular names
English: Dentaliidae
français: Dentaliidés
Nederlands: Olifantstanden

Dentaliidae is a family of relatively large tusk shells, scaphopod mollusks in the order Dentaliida.
Genera

Antalis H. & A. Adams, 1854
Coccodentalium Sacco, 1896
Compressidentalium Habe, 1963
Dentalium Linnaeus, 1758
Eudentalium Cotton & Godfrey, 1933
Fissidentalium Fischer, 1885
Graptacme Pilsbry & Sharp, 1897
Paradentalium Cotton & Godfrey, 1933
Pictodentalium Palmer, 1974
Plagioglypta Pilsbry in Pilsbry & Sharp, 1897
Schizodentalium Sowerby, 1894
Striodentalium Habe, 1964
Tesseracme Pilsbry & Sharp, 1897

References
"Dentaliidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

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