Tenagodus barbadensis

Tenagodus barbadensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Siliquariidae
Genus: Tenagodus
Species: T. barbadensis
Binomial name
Tenagodus barbadensis
Bieler, 2004[1]

Tenagodus barbadensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Siliquariidae.[2]

Contents

Distribution

Barbados.[1]

Description

The maximum recorded shell length is 48.9 mm.[3]

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 101 m.[3] Maximum recorded depth is 101 m.[3]

It lives as an obligatory commensal on certain species of sponges from families Halichondriidae and Thrombidae.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c 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. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2003.00104.x.
  2. ^ Tenagodus barbadensis Bieler, 2004.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=388606 on 17 May 2010.
  3. ^ a b c Welch J. J. (2010). "The “Island Rule” and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.