Siliquaria, common name the slit worm snails, is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Siliquariidae.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Family: | Siliquariidae |
| Genus: | Siliquaria Bruguière, 1789[1] |
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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 edit
Species in the genus Siliquaria include:
- Siliquaria muricata Born, 1780
- Siliquaria norai Bozzetti, 1998[3]
The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also mentions the following species with names in current use ;[4]
- Siliquaria bernardi Mörch, 1860
- Siliquaria chuni (Thiele, 1925)
- Siliquaria gigas Lesson, 1830
- Siliquaria reentzii (Mörch, 1865)
- Siliquaria scalariformis Mörch, 1861
- Subgenus Siliquaria
- Siliquaria australis Quoy & Gaimard, 1834
- Siliquaria encausticus (Mörch, 1861)
- Siliquaria tostus (Mörch, 1861)
- Synonymized species
- Siliquaria anguina (Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of Tenagodus anguinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Siliquaria armata Kuroda, Habe & Kosuge, 1971: synonym of Tenagodus armatus (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 Tenagodus norai (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 Tenagodus tahitensis Mörch, 1861
- Siliquaria trochlearis (Mörch, 1860): synonym of Tenagodes trochlearis (Mörch, 1861)
- Siliquaria weldii Tenison Woods, 1876: synonym of Tenagodus weldii Tenison-Woods, 1876
See also edit
References edit
- ^ 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
Further reading edit
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1