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Categories: Taxa named by Heinrich Georg Bronn, Articles with short description, Extant Carboniferous first appearances, Mississippian first appearances, Mollusc shells

tooth shell tusk shell Scaphopoda Elephant-tooth shell scaphopods

Any of various seashore mollusks having a tapering tubular shell open at each end and a foot pointed like a spade for burrowing WordNet 3.0

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Any of various seashore mollusks having a tapering tubular shell open at each end and a foot pointed like a spade for burrowing WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

The tusk shells or tooth shells, technically the Scaphopoda, are members of a class of shelled marine mollusc with worldwide distribution, and are the only class of exclusively infaunal marine molluscs. Wikipedia

A class of marine mollusks Wikipedia Disambiguation

Any of various molluscs, of the class Scaphopoda, that have curved, tapering shells and a spade-like foot. Wiktionary

Any of the marine mollusks of the class Scaphopoda, which look similar to elephant tusks. Wiktionary

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scaphopod

taxonomic group

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Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

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Mollusca

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class