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

Antalis vulgaris (da Costa, 1778)

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

*Antalis vulgare*	(da Costa, 1778)	orthographic variant
*Dentale vulgare*	da Costa, 1778	synonym
*Dentalium labiatum*	W. Turton, 1822	synonym
*Dentalium striolatum*	Risso, 1826	synonym
*Dentalium tarentinum*	Lamarck, 1818	synonym
*Dentalium vitreum*	Gmelin, 1791	synonym
*Dentalium vulgare*	(da Costa, 1778)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: zwakgeribde olifantstand

English: common elephant's tusk; common tusk; common tuskshell 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: Gemeine Zahnschnecke; Gemeiner Elefantenzahn

Literature

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 vulgaris (da Costa, 1778). 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:196380