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Taxon: Genus Dentalium Linnaeus, 1758 (mollusc)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Mollusca - (Class) Scaphopoda - (Order) Dentaliida - (Family) Dentaliidae

Original position

Testacea (Order) Linnaeus, 1758

Subsequent positions

Dentaliinae (Subfamily) (Gray, 1834)

Original entries

Dentalium dentalis Linnaeus, 1758
Dentalium elephantinum Linnaeus, 1758
Dentalium entalis Linnaeus, 1758
Dentalium minutú Linnaeus, 1758
Dentalium soriense F.E. Eames, 1952

Current position

Dentaliidae (Family) Children, 1834 Ref: P.D. Reynolds & G. Steiner, 2008: Table 7.1 (p. 147).

Alternative positions

Dentaliinae (Subfamily) (Gray, 1834) Ref: F.J. Springsteen & F.M. Leobrera, 1986: 365.
Testacea (Order) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: [von] Linné, C., 1767: 1263.

Historical positions

Dentaliidae (Family) Children, 1834 Ref: P.D. Reynolds & G. Steiner, 2008: Table 7.1 (p. 147).
Dentaliida (Order) Starobogatov, 1974 Ref: E.E. Ruppert et al., 2004: 406. [rough position]
Dentaliidae (Family) Children, 1834 Ref: P. Bouchet et al., 2001: 211.
Dentaliidae (Family) Children, 1834 Ref: G. Steiner & A.R. Kabat, 2001: 442, table 1 (p. 453).
Dentaliidae (Family) Children, 1834 Ref: V.G. Millard, 1997: 421.
Scaphopoda (Class) Bronn, 1862 Ref: C. Nielsen, 1995
Dentaliidae (Family) Children, 1834 Ref: R.C. Brusca & G.J. Brusca, 1990
Dentalioida (Order) Palmer, 1974 Ref: R.S. Boardman et al., 1987
Dentaliinae (Subfamily) (Gray, 1834) Ref: F.J. Springsteen & F.M. Leobrera, 1986: 365.
Mollusca (Phylum) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: L. Margulis & K.V. Schwartz, 1982: 206. [rough position]
Dentaliidae (Family) Children, 1834 Ref: K.J. Boss, 1982: 1164; 1089.
Scaphopoda (Class) Bronn, 1862 Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
Dentaliidae (Family) Children, 1834 Ref: F.E. Eames, 1952: 5.
Scaphopoda (Class) Bronn, 1862 Ref: E.R. Lankester, 1877: 448. [rough position]
Testacea (Order) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: C. a Linné, 1767: 1074, 1263.
Testacea (Order) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: C. Linnaeus, 1758: 645, 785.

Number of Subtaxa

2024 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 4s; †1s
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000 [4s]
1758 C. Linnaeus [4s]
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