Antalis is a genus of tusk shells, marine scaphopod mollusks.[1]

Antalis
Shell of Antalis vulgaris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Scaphopoda
Order: Dentaliida
Family: Dentaliidae
Genus: Antalis
JH. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
Type species
Dentalium entalis
Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
  • Dentale da Costa, 1778 (suppressed under ICZN Opinion 361)
  • Dentalium (Antalis) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
  • Dentalium (Entalis) Gray, 1847
  • Entaliopsis Newton & Harris, 1894
  • Entalis Gray, 1847 (invalid: junior homonym of Entalis Sowerby, 1839 [Annelida])

Species edit

Species within the genus Antalis include:

Extinct species
Taxon inquirendum
  • Antalis aculeata (Sowerby, 1860)
Species brought into synonymy
  • Antalis boissevainae Palmer, 1974 accepted as Antalis tibana (Nomura, 1940)
  • Antalis callithrix (Dall, 1889) accepted as Pertusiconcha callithrix (Dall, 1889) (currently placed in genus Pertusiconcha)
  • Antalis disparile (d'Orbigny, 1853) accepted as Paradentalium disparile (d'Orbigny, 1853)
  • Antalis entale Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Antalis entalis (Linnaeus, 1758) (wrong grammatical agreement of epithet)
  • Antalis infracta (Odhner, 1931) accepted as Paradentalium infractum (Odhner, 1931)
  • Antalis occidentale (Stimpson, 1851) accepted as Antalis occidentalis (Stimpson, 1851)
  • Antalis vulgare (da Costa, 1778) accepted as Antalis vulgaris (da Costa, 1778) (Spelling variation)

References edit

  1. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Antalis". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2019-02-25.

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