Siliquaria Explained

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.^[1]

Species

Species in the genus Siliquaria include:

• Siliquaria muricata Born, 1780
• Siliquaria norai Bozzetti, 1998^[2]

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also mentions the following species with names in current use ;^[3]

• 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

• Tenagodus

References

• 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). . 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

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979

Notes and References

1. 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
2. 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
3. http://clade.ansp.org/obis/search.php/7620 OBIS : Siliquaria