''Tenagodus'' is a
genus
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of
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
s,
marine gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s in the
family
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Siliquariidae
''Siliquariidae'' is a family (biology), family of sea snails with unusual, very loosely coiled shells. These are marine (ocean), marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily (taxonomy), superfamily Cerithioidea.
Taxonomy
The following two sub ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Tenagodus'' include:
* ''
Tenagodus anguinus
''Tenagodus anguinus'' is a species of unusual sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Siliquariidae, the slit worm shells.
Description
The shell is thick and irregularly coiled in a gradually tapered spiral, with rather distant who ...
'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Tenagodus armatus'' (Habe & Kosuge, 1967)
* ''
Tenagodus barbadensis'' Bieler, 2004
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Tenagodus chuni'' (Thiele, 1925)
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Tenagodus cumingii'' (Mörch, 1861)
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Tenagodus maoria'' (Powell, 1940)
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Tenagodus modestus'' (Dall, 1881)
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Tenagodus norai'' (Bozzetti, 1998)
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Tenagodus obtusiformis'' Martin, 1905
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Tenagodus obtusus'' (Schumacher, 1817)
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Tenagodus ponderosus'' (Mörch, 1861)
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Tenagodus senegalensis'' (Récluz in Mörch, 1860)
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Tenagodus squamatus'' (Blainville, 1827)
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Tenagodus sundaensis'' Dharma, 2011
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Tenagodus tahitensis'' Mörch, 1861
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Tenagodus trochlearis'' Mörch, 1861
* ''
Tenagodus weldii'' Tenison-Woods, 1876
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Tenagodus wilmanae'' (Tomlin, 1918)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Tenagodus anguillae'' Mörch, 1861: synonym of ''Tenagodus squamatus'' (Blainville, 1827)
References
* Bruguière, Léon G. 1789. ''Encyclopedie 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.
* Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). ''European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification''. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
* Bieler R. 2004. ''Sanitation with sponge and plunger: western Atlantic slit-wormsnails (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Siliquariidae)''. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 140(3): 307-333. page(s): 310
External links
Bieler, R., 1992. Tenagodus or Siliquaria? Unravelling taxonomic confusion in marine "worm-snails" (Cerithioidea: Siliquariidae). The Nautilus, 106(1): 15-20 [27 February
Siliquariidae
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