Siliquaria

Siliquaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Siliquariidae
Subfamily:
Genus:	Siliquaria; Bruguière, 1789
Type species
	Serpula anguina Linnaeus, 1758;
Species
	See text

Siliquaria

Siliquaria, common name the slit worm snails, is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Siliquariidae.

Siliquaria is the type genus of the family Siliquariidae.

Siliquaria is considered to be an objective synonym of Tenagodus Guettard, 1770 in World Register of Marine Species.^[2]

Species[]

Species in the genus Siliquaria include:

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also mentions the following species with names in current use ;^[4]

Siliquaria anguina (Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of Tenagodus anguinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Siliquaria armata Kuroda, Habe & Kosuge, 1971: synonym of (Habe & Kosuge, 1967)
Siliquaria bipartita Martin, 1880: synonym of Kuphus polythalamia (Linnaeus, 1758)
Siliquaria cumingii Mörch, 1861: synonym of Tenagodus cumingii (Mörch, 1861)
Siliquaria lactea Lamarck, 1818: synonym of Tenagodes lacteus Lamarck, 1818
Siliquaria limonensis Olsson, 1922: synonym of Tenagodus modestus (Dall, 1881)
Siliquaria maoria Powell, 1940: synonym of Tenagodus maoria (Powell, 1940)
Siliquaria modesta Dall, 1881: synonym of Tenagodus modestus (Dall, 1881)
Siliquaria norai Bozzetti, 1998: synonym of (Bozzetti, 1998)
Siliquaria ponderosa Mörch, 1861: synonym of Tenagodus ponderosus (Mörch, 1861)
Siliquaria sculpturata Gabb, 1881: synonym of Tenagodus squamatus (Blainville, 1827)
Siliquaria senegalensis (Mörch, 1860): synonym of Tenagodus senegalensis (Récluz in Mörch, 1860)
Siliquaria squamata Blainville, 1827: synonym of Tenagodus squamatus (Blainville, 1827)
Siliquaria tahitensis (Mörch, 1861): synonym of Mörch, 1861
Siliquaria trochlearis (Mörch, 1860): synonym of Tenagodes trochlearis (Mörch, 1861)
Siliquaria weldii Tenison Woods, 1876: synonym of Tenagodus weldii Tenison-Woods, 1876

^ Bruguière J. G. (1789). Ency. Méth. (Vers) (1), xv.
^ Gofas, S. (2009). Tenagodus Guettard, 1770. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138485 on 2010-05-19
^ WoRMS (2010). Siliquaria norai Bozzetti, 1998. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456928 on 2010-05-19
^ OBIS : Siliquaria; accessed : 31 October 2010

Bruguière, Léon G. 1789. Encyclopédie méthodique. Histoire naturelle des Vers. Volume 1. 1-344. Panckouche & Plomteux. A. Bul. Paris & Liege. page(s): p.xv
Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
Bieler, R., 1992 Tenagodus or Siliquaria? Unravelling taxonomic confusion in marine "worm-snails" (Cerithioidea: Siliquariidae). Nautilus 106, 1: 15-20. page(s): 15