Tenagodus

Tenagodus
Five view of a shell of Tenagodus anguinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Siliquariidae
Genus:	Tenagodus Guettard, 1770 [1]
Type species
Serpula anguina Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms [2]
Agathirses Montfort, 1808 † Anguinaria Schumacher, 1817 Pyxipoma Mörch, 1861 Siliquaria Bruguière, 1789 TenagodesFischer, 1885

Tenagodus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Siliquariidae. ^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Tenagodus include:

• Tenagodus anguinus (Linnaeus, 1758) ^[3]
• Tenagodus armatus (Habe & Kosuge, 1967)
• Tenagodus barbadensis Bieler, 2004 ^[4]
• Tenagodus chuni (Thiele, 1925)
• Tenagodus cumingii (Mörch, 1861) ^[5]
• Tenagodus lacteus Lamarck, 1818 ^[6]
• Tenagodus maoria (Powell, 1940)
• Tenagodus modestus (Dall, 1881) ^[7]
• Tenagodus norai (Bozzetti, 1998)
• Tenagodus obtusiformis Martin, 1905
• Tenagodus obtusus (Schumacher, 1817) ^[8]
• Tenagodus ponderosus (Mörch, 1861) ^[9]
• Tenagodus senegalensis (Récluz in Mörch, 1860) ^[10]
• Tenagodus squamatus (Blainville, 1827) ^[11]
• Tenagodus sundaensis Dharma, 2011
• Tenagodus tahitensis Mörch, 1861
• Tenagodus trochlearis Mörch, 1861
• Tenagodus weldii Tenison-Woods, 1876
• Tenagodus wilmanae (Tomlin, 1918)

Species brought into synonymy

• Tenagodus anguillae Mörch, 1861: synonym of Tenagodus squamatus (Blainville, 1827)

References

1. Guettard (1770). Mém. diff. Sci.3: 128.
2. Tenagodus Guettard, 1770 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 3 July 2012.
3. Tenagodus anguinus (Linnaeus, 1758) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 19 May 2010.
4. Tenagodus barbadensis Bieler, 2004 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 19 May 2010.
5. Tenagodus cumingii (Mörch, 1861) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 19 May 2010.
6. Tenagodus lacteus Lamarck, 1818 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 17 May 2010.
7. Tenagodus modestus (Dall, 1881) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 19 May 2010.
8. Tenagodus obtusus (Schumacher, 1817) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 19 May 2010.
9. Tenagodus ponderosus (Mörch, 1861) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 19 May 2010.
10. Tenagodus senegalensis (Récluz in Mörch, 1860) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 19 May 2010.
11. Tenagodus squamatus (Blainville, 1827) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 19 May 2010.

• 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). ISBN   0-915826-22-4. 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