WoRMS taxon details
Episiphon virgula (Hedley, 1903)
344412 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:344412)
accepted
Species
Dentalium (Episiphon) carneum Boissevain, 1906 · unaccepted
Dentalium carneum Boissevain, 1906 · unaccepted
Dentalium subrectum Jeffreys, 1883 · unaccepted
Dentalium virgula Hedley, 1903 · unaccepted
Episiphon subrectum (Jeffreys, 1883) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Dentalium virgula Hedley, 1903) Hedley, C. (1903). Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. “Thetis” off the coast of New South Wales, in February and March, 1896. Mollusca. Part II. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda. <em>Memoirs of the Australian Museum.</em> 4: 327-402, pls 36-37., available online at https://media.australian.museum/media/Uploads/Journals/16781/1502_complete.pdf [details]
Type locality contained in Australian part of the Tasman Sea
type locality contained in Australian part of the Tasman Sea (origin: native - non-endemic) [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Episiphon virgula (Hedley, 1903). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=344412 on 2025-04-03
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Dentalium (Episiphon) carneum Boissevain, 1906) Boissevain, M. (1906). The Scaphopoda of the Siboga Expedition, treated together with the known Indo-Pacific Scaphopoda. In: Weber M. (ed.) <i>Uitkomsten op Zoologisch, Botanisch, Oceanographisch en Geologisch Gebied verzameld in Nederlandsch Oost-Indië 1899-1900 aan boord H.M. Siboga onder commando van Luitenant ter zee 1e. kl. G.F. Tydeman</i>. Siboga-Expeditie Monographie 54 (Livraison 32): 1–76, 1-6 pls. E. J. Brill, Leiden. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11306482
page(s): 48, pl. 6 figs 42-45 [details]
original description (of Dentalium virgula Hedley, 1903) Hedley, C. (1903). Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. “Thetis” off the coast of New South Wales, in February and March, 1896. Mollusca. Part II. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda. <em>Memoirs of the Australian Museum.</em> 4: 327-402, pls 36-37., available online at https://media.australian.museum/media/Uploads/Journals/16781/1502_complete.pdf [details]
page(s): 48, pl. 6 figs 42-45 [details]
original description (of Dentalium virgula Hedley, 1903) Hedley, C. (1903). Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. “Thetis” off the coast of New South Wales, in February and March, 1896. Mollusca. Part II. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda. <em>Memoirs of the Australian Museum.</em> 4: 327-402, pls 36-37., available online at https://media.australian.museum/media/Uploads/Journals/16781/1502_complete.pdf [details]
Taxonomy
status source
Steiner, G.; Kabat, A. R. (2004). Catalog of species-group names of Recent and fossil Scaphopoda (Mollusca). <em>Zoosystema.</em> 26 (4): 549-726., available online at https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/zoosystema/26/4/catalogue-des-noms-du-groupe-espece-de-scaphopodes-mollusca-recents-et-fossiles [details]
Other





Unreviewed
Habitat shelf to bathyal [details]