MolluscaBase taxon details
original description
(of Dentalium gadus Montagu, 1803) Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp;; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): 496 [details]
basis of record
Jeffreys J.G. (1877). New and peculiar Mollusca of the order Solenoconchia procured during the <i>Valorous</i> expedition.. <i>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4)19</i>: 154-158, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26456780
page(s): 157 [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]
From other sources
Habitat shelf [details]
Taxonomy in Mörch (1863: 426-427) mentioned as synonym of Ditrupa gadus Montagu, variant spelling of Ditrupa, and probably at least in part to be referred to the serpulid Ditrupa arietina [details]