Dentalium zelandicum is a species of tusk shell, a marine scaphopod mollusk in the family Dentaliidae.

Dentalium zelandicum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Scaphopoda
Order: Dentaliida
Family: Dentaliidae
Genus: Dentalium
Species:
D. zelandicum
Binomial name
Dentalium zelandicum
Sowerby, 1860

This species is endemic to New Zealand waters.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Powell, A W B (1979). New Zealand Mollusca. Auckland, New Zealand: William Collins Publishers Ltd. pp. 500p. ISBN 0-00-216906-1.