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Episiphon  Pilsbry & Sharp, 1897
Taxonomic Serial No.: 82208

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2005   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumSpiralia   
             PhylumMollusca  – mollusques, molusco, molluscs, mollusks  
                ClassScaphopoda Bronn, 1862 – tusk shells, scaphopodes, dentálio, scafópode  
                   OrderDentaliida da Costa, 1776  
                      SuperfamilyDentalioidea   
                         FamilyGadilinidae Chistikov, 1975  
                            SubfamilyEpisiphoninae Chistikov, 1975  
                               GenusEpisiphon Pilsbry & Sharp, 1897  
    Direct Children:  
                                  SpeciesEpisiphon didymus (Watson, 1879) – ovate tuskshell 
                                  SpeciesEpisiphon sowerbyi (Guilding, 1834) – annulate tuskshell 
       

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  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Steiner, Gerhard, and Alan R. Kabat   
  Publication Date: 2001   
  Article/Chapter Title: Catalogue of supraspecific taxa of Scaphopoda (Mollusca)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Zoosystema, vol. 23, no. 3   
  Page(s): 433-460   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1280-9551   
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