Cadulus eliezeri Caetano et al. 2006 (tusk shell)

Scaphopoda - Gadilida - Gadilidae

Full reference: C. H. S. Caetano, V. Scarabino, and R. S. Absalao. 2006. Scaphopoda (Mollusca) from the Brazilian continental shelf and upper slope (13° to 21°S) with descriptions of two new species of the genus Cadulus Philippi, 1844. Zootaxa 1267:1-47

Belongs to Cadulus according to C. H. S. Caetano et al. 2006

Sister taxa: Cadulus (Cadulus), Cadulus (Platyschides), Cadulus acuminatus, Cadulus bellulus, Cadulus caronensis, Cadulus conradi, Cadulus infans, Cadulus jacksonensis, Cadulus juvenis, Cadulus nerta, Cadulus newtonensis, Cadulus nitentior, Cadulus nutans, Cadulus ovulum, Cadulus parianus, Cadulus thallus, Cadulus waynensis, Cadulus yatalensis

Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Cadulus eliezeri in the database

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