Dentalium (genus)
| Dentalium Temporal range: | |
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| Dentalium octangulatum Donovan, 1804 | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Scaphopoda |
| Order: | Dentaliida |
| Family: | Dentaliidae |
| Genus: | Dentalium Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Species | |
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50, see text | |
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Dentalium is a large genus of tooth shells or tusk shells, marine scaphopod molluscs in the family Dentaliidae. The genus contains 50 described species and about 50 extinct species.