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A class of marine cephalate Mollusca having a tubular shell open at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for burrowing, and many long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles. It includes Dentalium, or the tooth shells, and other similar shells. Called also Prosopocephala, and Solenoconcha.

A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda.

A genus of marine mollusks belonging to the Scaphopoda, having a tubular conical shell.

divisions of the animal kingdom, including the classes Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, PteropodaScaphopoda, and Lamellibranchiata, or Conchifera. These animals have an unsegmented bilateral body, with most of the organs and parts paired, but not repeated longitudinally. Most of them develop a mantle, which incloses either a…

Same as Scaphopoda.

A division of Scaphopoda including those in which the foot terminates in a circular disk.

Same as Scaphopoda.