Tenagodus

Tenagodus
Five view of a shell of Tenagodus anguinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
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 Tenagodes Fischer, 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 maoria (Powell, 1940)
• Tenagodus modestus (Dall, 1881)^[6]
• Tenagodus norai (Bozzetti, 1998)
• Tenagodus obtusiformis Martin, 1905
• Tenagodus obtusus (Schumacher, 1817)^[7]
• Tenagodus ponderosus (Mörch, 1861)^[8]
• Tenagodus senegalensis (Récluz in Mörch, 1860)^[9]
• Tenagodus squamatus (Blainville, 1827)^[10]
• 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 modestus (Dall, 1881).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 May 2010.
7. Tenagodus obtusus (Schumacher, 1817).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 May 2010.
8. Tenagodus ponderosus (Mörch, 1861).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 May 2010.
9. Tenagodus senegalensis (Récluz in Mörch, 1860).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 May 2010.
10. 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