Cadulus colubridens

Cadulus colubridens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Scaphopoda
Order: Dentaliida
Family: Gadilidae
Genus: Cadulus
Species: C. colubridens
Binomial name
Cadulus colubridens
Watson, 1879

Cadulus colubridens is a tusk shell or scaphopod in the family Gadilidae of the order Dentaliida. This species was described from only one specimen collected in 1874 by the H.M.S. Challenger expedition.[1] The original description and a drawing was published in 1879 by Robert Boog Watson, a Scottish malacologist who reported on the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda of the Challenger expedition. The specimen was collected at a depth of about 1300 m in ocean waters east of North Island, New Zealand.

The species is described as having a smooth, white shell, with a swelling below the anterior aperture and a length of 15 mm.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 Dell, R. K. (April 1957). "A revision of the Recent scaphopod Mollusca of New Zealand". Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand (Royal Society of New Zealand). 84, part 3: 561–576.
  2. Powell, William Baden (1979). New Zealand Mollusca. Auckland, New Zealand: William Collins Publishers Ltd. ISBN 0-00-216906-1.
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