Common name of Dentalium laqueatum
 
Common Name Reticulate tuskshell
Language English
Type AFS
Official Trade Name No
Rank 1 - (Legal common name (unique))
Country United States (contiguous states)
Locality
Ref. Turgeon, D.D., J.F. Quinn Jr., A.E. Bogan, E.V. Coan, F.G. Hochberg, W.G. Lyons, P.M. Mikkelsen, R.J. Neves, C.F.E. Roper, G. Rosenberg, B. Roth, A. Scheltema, F.G. Thompson, M. Vecchione and J.D. Willams, 1998
Life Stage juveniles and adults
Sex females and males
Core non-fish animal
1st Modifier morphology
2nd Modifier
Remarks 'shell' from Greek 'skallein', i.e., to hoe, pertaining to the shell.
 
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