WoRMS taxon details
Scaphopoda
Solenoconchia · unaccepted
- Order Dentaliida
- Order Gadilida
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Bronn, H. G. (1862). Die Klassen und Ordnungen der Weichthiere (Malacozoa), wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild. Dritten Bandes erste Abtheilung. Kopflose Weichthiere (Malacozoa Acephala) Weichthiere. 518 pp., 44 pls. Wintersche Verlagshandlung: Leipzig und Heidelberg., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13385404
page(s): 3(2): [522] [details]
page(s): 3(2): [522] [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Scaphopoda. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=104 on 2025-07-18
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Nomenclature
original description
Bronn, H. G. (1862). Die Klassen und Ordnungen der Weichthiere (Malacozoa), wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild. Dritten Bandes erste Abtheilung. Kopflose Weichthiere (Malacozoa Acephala) Weichthiere. 518 pp., 44 pls. Wintersche Verlagshandlung: Leipzig und Heidelberg., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13385404
page(s): 3(2): [522] [details]
original description (of Solenoconchia) LacazeDuthiers, H. (1856-1857). Histoire de l'organisation et du développement du Dentale. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles.</em> sér. 4, Zoologie, 6: 225–281, pl. 8-10; 7: 5–51, 171– 255, pl. 2-8; 8: 18–44., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33247739
page(s): vol. 8 p. 43; note: As "Solenoconques", Order in Class Acephala, along with Lamellibranches and Brachiopodes. [details]
page(s): 3(2): [522] [details]
original description (of Solenoconchia) LacazeDuthiers, H. (1856-1857). Histoire de l'organisation et du développement du Dentale. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles.</em> sér. 4, Zoologie, 6: 225–281, pl. 8-10; 7: 5–51, 171– 255, pl. 2-8; 8: 18–44., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33247739
page(s): vol. 8 p. 43; note: As "Solenoconques", Order in Class Acephala, along with Lamellibranches and Brachiopodes. [details]
Taxonomy
status source
Steiner, G.; Kabat, A. R. (2001). Catalogue of supraspecific taxa of Scaphopoda (Mollusca). Zoosystema. 23(3): 433-460., available online at http://web.archive.org/web/20070811162831/http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/zoosyst/z01n3a4.pdf [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Gudmundsson, G.; Engelstad, K.; Steiner, G.; Svavarsson, J. (2003). Diets of four deep-water scaphopod species (Mollusca) in the North Atlantic and the Nordic Seas. <em>Marine Biology.</em> 142(6): 1103-1112., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-003-1046-3 [details] Available for editors 
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Classification These two clades seem unambiguously supported by both molecular and morphological data; traditionally ranked as orders although why not subclass? Opinions welcome, decisions on this extend to other cases like the archeogastropod groups. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | stoottandjesolifantstandjes | [details] |
| English | tusk shellstooth shellsspade-footed mollusksscaphopodsscaphopodians | [details] |
| French | scaphopodes | [details] |
| German | ScaphopodenKahnfüßerGrabfüßer | [details] |
| Japanese | 掘足綱 | [details] |
| Spanish | escafópodos | [details] |
| Swedish | tandsnäckor | [details] |
