Galapagos Species Database
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Dentalium oerstedii
dentálio
Length: 40 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Scaphopoda
Order
Dentaliida
Family
Dentaliidae
Genus
Dentalium
Species
oerstedii
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Dentalium numerosum Pilsbry & Sharp, 1897, ex Dall, MS; USNM: 87560, 122808
Origin: Native
Distribution: Punta Peñasco,Sonora,Mexico,to Santa Elena, Ecuador including Galápagos islands.
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Dentalium oerstedii", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10609. Accessed 31 October 2026.