tooth shells
tusk shells
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It includes Dentalium, or the tooth shells, and other similar shells.

Dentalium is a large genus of tooth shells or tusk shells, marine scaphopod molluscs in the family Dentaliidae.

The shells used include pearly green and blue-green maireener (rainbow kelp) shells, brown and white rice shells, black cats' teeth shells and pink button shells.

The Aleuts pierced holes around the rim of their ears with dentalium shells (tooth shells or tusk shells), bone, feathers, dried bird wings or skulls and/or amber.

The word dentalium or dentalia (plural), as commonly used by Native American artists and anthropologists, refers to tooth shells or tusk shells used in indigenous jewelry, adornment, and commerce in western Canada and the United States.

Gadilidae is a family of tusk shells in the order Dentaliida.

Scaphopoda, which are called tusk shells in English is a class of marine molluscs.

The tusk shells or scaphopods are a class of shelled marine molluscs.

Gadilida is an order of very small tusk shells, marine scaphopod molluscs.

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

Finally, the tusk shells (Scaphopoda) are a long-lived group with a record stretching from the Ordovician to the present.

Tusk shells live in seafloor sediment where they feed on detritus, foraminiferans and microscopic animals.

The apex of tusk shells is the small, open posterior end, and the opening itself is usually called the apical aperture.

These tusk shells are a kind of seashell, specifically the shells of scaphopod mollusks.

Dentaliida is one of the two orders of scaphopod mollusks, commonly known as elephant's tusk shells.

Dentalium (tusk shells)

The scaphopods, or tusk shells, have a veliger larva very similar to that of bivalves, despite the great difference in the appearance of the adults.

Shell jewelry also uses the shells of clams (bivalves) and sometimes uses tusk shells (scaphopods).

Dentalium is a large genus of tooth shells or tusk shells, marine scaphopod molluscs in the family Dentaliidae.

It comprises all of the shell-bearing classes of molluscs, including the snails, clams, tusk shells, chitons, ammonites, monoplacophorans, and so on.

The shells of the various groups of shelled mollusks, including those of snails, clams, tusk shells, chitons and nautilus, are also exoskeletons.

The shell of many of the scaphopods ("tusk shells") resembles a miniature elephant's tusk in overall shape, except that it is hollow, and is open at both ends.

The Aleuts pierced holes around the rim of their ears with dentalium shells (tooth shells or tusk shells), bone, feathers, dried bird wings or skulls and/or amber.

Correspondingly, pylochelid hermit crabs do not usually inhabit gastropod shells, but instead withdraw into decayed pieces of wood, stones, tusk shells (especially Dentaliidae), living sponges, pieces of bamboo or mangroves.

The mollusc (or mollusk) shell is typically a calcareous exoskeleton which encloses, supports and protects the soft parts of an animal in the phylum Mollusca, which includes snails, clams, tusk shells, and several other classes.

A veliger is the planktonic larva of many kinds of sea snails and freshwater snails, marine and freshwater gastropod molluscs, as well as most bivalve molluscs (clams) and tusk shells.

Dwelling on or in seabed ooze and often smaller than an aspirin tablet, they include tiny slugs, snails, crabs, bristle worms, ribbon worms, lamp shells, tusk shells, sea anemones, brittle stars and sea cucumbers.

The most common species of shells to be used as currency have been Monetaria moneta, the "money cowry", and certain tusk shells or dentalium, such as those used in North Western North America for many centuries.

The word dentalium or dentalia (plural), as commonly used by Native American artists and anthropologists, refers to tooth shells or tusk shells used in indigenous jewelry, adornment, and commerce in western Canada and the United States.

It was once considered as a possible ancestor to the scaphopods, but this no longer seems tenable.

Scaphopods have no eyes, or other distinct sensory organs.

The order Dentaliida contains most of the larger scaphopods.

Their snorkel may represent a move towards a tubular shell, such as is seen in the modern scaphopods.

Sculpture is a feature found in the shells of gastropods, bivalves, and scaphopods.

He also named some scaphopods and bivalves.

The tusk shells or scaphopods are a class of shelled marine molluscs.

He has worked extensively on molluscs of various types including scaphopods, bivalves and cephalopods.

In 1964 he published a major monograph on the Antarctic bivalves, chitons and scaphopods.

Scaphopods feed on microscopic organisms; some supplement their diet of zooplankton with vegetable matter.

Scaphopods have separate sexes, and external fertilisation.

This phylum of animals includes gastropods, bivalves, scaphopods, cephalopods, and several other groups.

It seems, however, that the internal anatomy and morphology of the foot were closer to that of the scaphopods.

The species within the Gadilida are usually very much smaller than those within the other order of scaphopods, the Dentaliida.

Other Matanuska fossils include scaphopods, foraminifera, and palynomorphs.

Other mollusks include gastropods, scaphopods and pelecypods.

Miocene gastropods and scaphopods of the Choctawhatchee Formation of Florida.

Late Cretaceous invertebrates included a bryozoan, coelenterats, gastropods, pelecypods, and scaphopods.

During this interval it was inhabited by invertebrates like crinoids, crustaceans, echinoderms, gastropods, and scaphopods.

Molecular data suggests that the scaphopods are a sister group to the cephalopods, although higher-level molluscan phylogeny remains somewhat unresolved.

The scaphopods, or tusk shells, have a veliger larva very similar to that of bivalves, despite the great difference in the appearance of the adults.

The Tertiary seas of Washington were inhabited by creatures like echinoderms, foraminferans, gastropods, pelecypods, and scaphopods.

The Yorktown Formation preserves evidence of another fauna including invertebrates 43 different kinds of pelecypods, three scaphopods, and one crustacean.

The post-oral tentacles are equated with bivalves' labial flaps, cephalopods' arms, and scaphopods' captacula.

The aragonitic shells of scaphopods are conical and curved in a planispiral way, and they are usually whitish in color.