Falcidens

Falcidens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Aplacophora
Order: Falcidentidae
Genus: Falcidens

Falcidens is one of three genera within the Falcidentidae; its radula consists of a single row of teeth which are mineralized in crystalline hydroxyapatite (a most unusual mineral in organisms), and its teeth are not periodically shed and replaced like in other molluscs.[1] For details of the radula, see Radula#In_caudofoveates.

It contains the following species:[2]

References

  1. Cruz, R.; Lins, U.; Farina, M. (1998). "Minerals of the radular apparatus of Falcidens sp. (Caudofoveata) and the evolutionary implications for the Phylum Mollusca". Biological Bulletin 194 (2): 224–230. doi:10.2307/1543051. JSTOR 1543051.
  2. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137774
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