Falcidens | |
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Falcidens sp. stained with osmium tetroxide and embedded in Spurr's resin for electron microscopy, scanned in resin block. Volume rendering of a low-resolution scan, showing the anterior-most 1.4 mm of the animal.[1] | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Caudofoveata |
Order: | Chaetodermatida |
Family: | Chaetodermatidae |
Genus: | Falcidens Salvini-Plawen, 1968 |
Falcidens is one of three genera within the family Chaetodermatida; its radula consists of a single row of teeth which are mineralized in crystalline hydroxyapatite (a most unusual mineral in organisms), and its teeth are not periodically shed and replaced like in other molluscs.[2] For details of the radula, see Radula#In caudofoveates.
It contains the following species:[3]
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