MarBEF Data System

Deep-Sea taxon details

Episiphon sowerbyi (Guilding, 1834)

AphiaID

344408 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:344408)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Episiphon Pilsbry & Sharp, 1897

Orig. name

Dentalium sowerbyi Guilding, 1834

Environment

marine

Original description

(of ) Guilding, L. (1834). Observations on Naticina and Dentalium, two genera of molluscous animals. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 17(1): 29-35, pl. 3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/733927
page(s): 35, pl. 3, fig. 7 [details]

Descriptive notes

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Episiphon sowerbyi (Guilding, 1834). Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=344408 on 2024-05-08

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Episiphon sowerbyi (Guilding, 1834). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=344408 on 2024-05-08

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-04-11 11:44:20Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2008-12-22 09:27:02Z

changed

Scarabino, Victor

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of ) Guilding, L. (1834). Observations on Naticina and Dentalium, two genera of molluscous animals. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 17(1): 29-35, pl. 3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/733927
page(s): 35, pl. 3, fig. 7 [details]

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

additional source Caetano C. H., Scarabino V. & Absalao R. S. (2006). Scaphopoda (Mollusca) from the Brazilian continental shelf and upper slope (13° to 21°S) with descriptions of two new species of the genus Cadulus Philippi, 1844. Zootaxa. 1267: 1-47., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1267.1.1 [details] Available for editors

additional source Kraeuter, J. N. 2009. Scaphopoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 745–749 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

From other sources

Habitat shelf to bathyal [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
English	annulate tuskshell	[details]

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS

From other sources

Episiphon sowerbyi