Siliquaria
Siliquaria is a genus of sea snails. These are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Siliquariidae, common name the slit worm snails.
Siliquaria is the type genus of the family Siliquariidae.
Siliquaria is considered as 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 ; [5]
- Siliquaria bernardi Mörch, 1860
- Siliquaria chuni (Thiele, 1925)
- Siliquaria gigas Lesson, 1830
- Siliquaria muricata (Born, 1780)
- Siliquaria reentzii (Mörch, 1865)
- Siliquaria scalariformis Mörch, 1861
- Subgenus Siliquaria
- Siliquaria anguina (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Siliquaria armata Kuroda, Habe & Kosuge, 1971
- Siliquaria australis Quoy & Gaimard, 1834
- Siliquaria encausticus (Mörch, 1861)
- Siliquaria tostus (Mörch, 1861)
- Subgenus Pyxipoma
- Synonymized species
- 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 ponderosa Mörch, 1861 : synonym of Tenagodus ponderosus (Mörch, 1861)
- Siliquaria senegalensis (Mörch, 1860) : synonym of Tenagodus senegalensis (Récluz in Mörch, 1860)
- Siliquaria trochlearis (Mörch, 1860) : synonym of Tenagodes trochlearis (Mörch, 1861)
See also
References
- ^ 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 (2009). Siliquaria muricatus Lamarck. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215150 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
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