Siliquaria

Siliquaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Siliquariidae
Subfamily: Siliquariinae
Genus: Siliquaria
Bruguière, 1789[1]
Type species
Serpula anguina Linnaeus, 1758
Species

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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.[2]

Species

Species in the genus Siliquaria include:

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also mentions the following species with names in current use ; [4]

Subgenus Siliquaria
Synonymized species 

See also

References

  1. Bruguière J. G. (1789). Ency. Méth. (Vers) (1), xv.
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. OBIS : Siliquaria; accessed : 31 October 2010

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