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Scaphopda
Webster's Dictionary
(n. pl.) A class of marine cephalate Mollusca having a tubular shell open at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for burrowing, and many long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles. It includes Dentalium, or the tooth shells, and other similar shells. Called also Prosopocephala, and Solenoconcha.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Scaphopda'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/scaphopda.html. 1828.