Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Scaphopoda > Order Dentaliida > Family Dentaliidae > Genus Antalis

Antalis entalis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Antalis*	H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854	accepted genus name
*Entalis*	Gray, 1847	junior homonym
*Dentale*	da Costa, 1778	synonym
*Dentalium (Antalis)*	H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854	synonym
*Entaliopsis*	R. B. Newton & G. F. Harris, 1894	synonym

Species group names

*Dentalium striolatum*	W. Stimpson, 1851	junior homonym; nom. inval.
*Dentalium (Antalis) entale*	[sic]	orthographic variant
*Dentalium (Antalis) entale stimpsoni*	J. B. Henderson, 1920	synonym
*Dentalium entalis*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym
*Dentalium entalis var. anulata*	Jeffreys, 1865	synonym
*Dentalium entalis var. infundibulum*	Jeffreys, 1869	synonym
*Dentalium stimpsoni*	J. B. Henderson, 1920	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: almindelig søtand sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: gladde olifantstand

English: common elephant tusk; North European elephant tusk sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Elefantenzahnschnecke; Nordeuropäische

Literature

basis of record	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Ivanov, D. L. & Zarubina, E. M. (2004). Distribution of scaphopod mollusks (Mollusca, Scaphopoda) in the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans, based on materials of Russian and Soviet expeditions. Ruthenica. 14(1): 89-104.
additional source	Morton J.E. 1959. The habits and feeding organs of Dentalium entalis. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 38(2): 225-238.
status source	Steiner, G.; Kabat, A. R. (2004). Catalog of species-group names of Recent and fossil Scaphopoda (Mollusca). Zoosystema. 26 (4): 549-726.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Antalis entalis (Linnaeus, 1758). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:150534