Dentalium tiwhana

Dentalium tiwhana
Dentalium tiwhana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Scaphopoda
Order: Dentaliida
Family: Dentaliidae
Genus: Dentalium
Species: D. tiwhana
Binomial name
Dentalium tiwhana
Dell, 1953

Dentalium tiwhana is a tusk shell of the family Dentaliidae, endemic to New Zealand waters.[1]

References

  1. ^ Powell, A W B (1979). New Zealand Mollusca. Auckland, New Zealand: William Collins Publishers Ltd. pp. 500p. ISBN 0-00-216906-1. 

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