Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca

Scaphopoda Bronn, 1862

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Dentaliida Starobogatov, 1974
Gadilida Starobogatov, 1974

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: olifantstandjes; stoottandjes sources: Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.;Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: scaphopodians; scaphopods; spade-footed mollusks; tooth shells; tusk shells 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.;Hayward, P. J.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1996). Collins pocket guide: sea shore of Britain and Europe. Collins pocket guides. Harper-Collins Publishers: London, UK. ISBN 0-00-219955-6. 352 pp.

French: scaphopodes sources: Bousfield, E. L. (1964). Coquillages des cotes canadiennes de l'Atlantique. Musée national du Canada. Ottawa. 89 p.

German: Grabfüßer; Kahnfüßer; Scaphopoden 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.

Japanese: 掘足綱 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Spanish, Castillian: escafópodos

Swedish: tandsnäckor

Literature

original description	Bronn, H. G. (1862). Die Klassen und Ordnungen der Weichthiere (Malacozoa), wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild. Dritten Bandes erste Abtheilung. Kopflose Weichthiere (Malacozoa Acephala) Weichthiere. 518 pp., 44 pls. Wintersche Verlagshandlung: Leipzig und Heidelberg.
status source	Steiner, G.; Kabat, A. R. (2001). Catalogue of supraspecific taxa of Scaphopoda (Mollusca). Zoosystema. 23(3): 433-460.
ecology source	Gudmundsson, G.; Engelstad, K.; Steiner, G.; Svavarsson, J. (2003). Diets of four deep-water scaphopod species (Mollusca) in the North Atlantic and the Nordic Seas. Marine Biology. 142(6): 1103-1112.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Scaphopoda. 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:104