MolluscaBase taxon details
original description
(of Dentalium pretiosum G. B. Sowerby II, 1860) Sowerby, G. B. II. (1860). Monograph of the genus <i>Dentalium</i>. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), <i>Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells</i>. Vol. 3 (20): 97–104, pl. 223–225. London, privately published. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15940524 [details]
additional source
Clark, R. B. 1963. The economics of Dentalium. The Veliger 6(1): 9-19 [details]
status source
Steiner, G.; Kabat, A. R. (2004). Catalog of species-group names of Recent and fossil Scaphopoda (Mollusca). Zoosystema. 26(4): 549-726., available online at http://web.archive.org/web/20070315080136/http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/publication/3271_z04n4a1.pdf [details]
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Wampum tuskshell |
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