The tusk shells or tooth shells, technically the Scaphopoda /skæˈfɒpədə/ (the scaphopods /ˈskæfəpɒdz/, from Ancient Greek σκᾰ́φης skáphē "boat" and πούς...

commonly known as the Wampum tuskshell or the Indian money tusk is a species of tusk shell in the family Dentaliidae. It was first described by George...

several species of tusk shell or scaphopod. The tusk shell is naturally open at both ends, and can easily be strung on a thread. This shell money was valued...

phylum Mollusca, which includes snails, clams, tusk shells, and several other classes. Not all shelled molluscs live in the sea; many live on the land...

Nation" Cusk (fish), or tusk fish (Brosme brosme), a fish of the ling family Tusk shell (Scaphopoda), a class of marine mollusks Tusk (Marvel Comics), a character...

to tooth shells or tusk shells used in indigenous jewelry, adornment, and commerce in western Canada and the United States. These tusk shells are a kind...

tardigrades, as well as the outer shell of certain sponges and the mollusc shell shared by snails, clams, tusk shells, chitons and nautilus. Some vertebrate...

a species of tusk shell, a marine scaphopod mollusk in the family Dentaliidae. As the Latin name implies, the cross section of this shell is hexagonal;...

(clams), Polyplacophora (chitons) and Scaphopoda (tusk shells). Cephalopods only have small internal shells, with the exception of the Nautiloidea. Some groups...

snails), scaphopods (or tusk shells), polyplacophorans (or chitons), and cephalopods (such as nautilus and spirula). These shells are very often the most...

(bivalves) and tusk shells (scaphopods). Occasionally shell jewelry is made from the shells of non-marine mollusks such as the shells of land snails [1]...

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 freshwater snails, as well as most bivalve molluscs (clams) and tusk shells. The veliger is the characteristic larva of the gastropod, bivalve and...

Antalis vulgaris, commonly known as the common tusk shell, is a species of scaphopods mainly encountered on sandy bottoms from 5 to 1000 meters depth....

organic–inorganic composite material produced by some molluscs as an inner shell layer. It is also the material of which pearls are composed. It is strong...

A tusk shell of the scaphopod Antalis vulgaris...

Dentalium longitrorsum is a species of tusk shell, a marine scaphopod mollusk in the family Dentaliidae. The shell is a slender and long, about 100mm. It...

shell height reaching up to 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in). Rudist Titanosarcolites had overall size around 2 m (6 ft 7 in). Complete shell length of tusk shell Prodentalium...

"The expression of an engrailed protein during embryonic shell formation of the tusk-shell, Antalis entalis (Mollusca, Scaphopoda)". Evolution and Development...

tubicola – Mytilidae Anomiidae Anomia scabrosa – a jingle shell Enigmonia aenigmatica – a jingle shell Arca nitens, A. tumescens and Glycymeris wrigleyi – ark...

Dentalium tiwhana is a tusk shell of the family Dentaliidae, endemic to New Zealand waters. Powell, A W B (1979). New Zealand Mollusca. Auckland, New Zealand:...

The Pitkin Formation, or Pitkin Limestone, is a fossiliferous geologic formation in northern Arkansas that dates to the Chesterian Series of the late Mississippian...

a foot used for creeping and a "shell" that was mineralized. In one particular branch of the family tree, the shell of conchiferans is thought to have...

The gastropod shell is part of the body of a gastropod or snail, a kind of mollusc. The shell is an exoskeleton, which protects from predators, mechanical...

although it may live in water as shallow as 100 meters, in wood fragments, tusk shells, and pieces of bamboo. It is the only member of the genus Parapylocheles...

Monoplacophora Polyplacophora (chitons, or sea cradles) Scaphopoda (tusk shells) Micrognathozoa Chromadorea Enoplea Secernentea Gordioidea Nectonematoida...

coat-of-mail shells or suck-rocks, or more formally as loricates, polyplacophorans, and occasionally as polyplacophores. Chitons have a shell composed of...

(limpet-like) gastropod shell is called the apical cavity. The apex of tusk shells is the small, open posterior end, and the opening itself is usually called...

Dentalium glaucarena is a species of tusk shell, a marine scaphopod mollusk in the family Dentaliidae. This species is endemic to the waters of New Zealand...

Dentalium nanum is a tusk shell of the family Dentaliidae, endemic to New Zealand waters. The Dentalium shell was traditionally used for decorative purposes...