Tusk Shells

Scaphopoda

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Tusk shells is a group of molluscs. There are 606 species of tusk shells, in 47 genera and 12 families. This group has been around since the Darriwilian Age. Scaphopoda (tusk shells) have sexual reproduction. Reproduction is dioecious. Scaphopoda (tusk shells) is a slow moving animal.

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URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0019953
Definition: Capable of creating a new organism by combining the genetic material of two gametes, which may come from two parent organisms or from a single organism, in the case of self-fertilizing hermaphrodites.

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URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148681
Definition: a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct male and female individual organisms.

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URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/slowMoving
Definition: Organism that moves actively, but generally at a slow pace

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EOL has data for 23 attributes, including:

diet includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Diet
- Definition: Information about the items eaten by this organism.
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particulate organic matter
- URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22093455
- Definition: organic particles in soil or water, usually defined by size class, (eg: up to 2mm in soil, or 1mm at sea) which may include detritus, as well as living particles such as microbes or pollen
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eats
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002470
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Detritus complex
ecomorphological guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/EcomorphologicalGuild
- Definition: organisms that share certain morphological traits due to adaptation to similar environments and ecological roles
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shallow infaunal
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/shallowInfaunal
- Definition: Benthic organism that lives within the upper layers of unlithified (soft) substrate.
- Attribution: http://paleodb.org/public/tips/ecology_tips.html
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first appearance
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FossilFirst
- Definition: The first appearance of this taxon in the fossil record.
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Darriwilian Age
- URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Darriwilian
- Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
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is eaten by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002471
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Chionoecetes opilio (O. Fabricius 1788) (Snow Crab)
mineralized skeleton contains
- URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/mineralizedSkeletonContains
- Definition: Component found in mineralized skeletal tissue, (a specialized form of biogenic tissue in which the extracellular matrix is mineralized, and which functions in mechanical and structural support.)
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aragonite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_52239
- Definition: Calcium carbonate (CO3Ca), aragonite structure
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motility
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33596
- Definition: ability to move spontaneously and actively, consuming energy in the process
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slow moving
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/slowMoving
- Definition: Organism that moves actively, but generally at a slow pace
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number of fossil occurrences
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/fossilOccPBDB
- Definition: The number of fossil occurrences in the Paleobiology Database (https://paleobiodb.org) that are identified as belonging to a particular taxon or any of its subtaxa.
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3474
number of public records in BOLD
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/NumberPublicRecordsInBOLD
- Definition: number of records in this clade in the Barcode Of Life Database (BOLD)
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103
preyed upon by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002458
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Cylichna
reproduction
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0000003
- Definition: The production of new individuals that contain some portion of genetic material inherited from one or more parent organisms
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sexual reproduction
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0019953
- Definition: Capable of creating a new organism by combining the genetic material of two gametes, which may come from two parent organisms or from a single organism, in the case of self-fertilizing hermaphrodites.
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trophic guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TrophicGuild
- Definition: A group of species that exploit the same food resources, and/or use the same feeding or foraging methods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_(ecology)
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deposit feeder
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/depositFeeder
- Definition: an organism that eats particulate organic material in or on sediments.
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Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of tusk shells

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