Siliquaria

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Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Cerithioidea Subfamily Siliquariinae Higher classification Siliquariidae		Phylum Mollusca Family Siliquariidae Scientific name Siliquaria Rank Genus

Lower classifications Tenagodus weldii, Tenagodus maoria

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.

Species

Species in the genus Siliquaria include:

Siliquaria muricata Born, 1780

Siliquaria norai Bozzetti, 1998

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

Siliquaria bernardi Mörch, 1860

Siliquaria chuni (Thiele, 1925)

Siliquaria gigas Lesson, 1830

Siliquaria reentzii (Mörch, 1865)

Siliquaria scalariformis Mörch, 1861

Subgenus Siliquaria

Siliquaria australis Quoy & Gaimard, 1834

Siliquaria encausticus (Mörch, 1861)

Siliquaria tostus (Mörch, 1861)

Synonymized species

Siliquaria anguina (Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of Tenagodus anguinus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Siliquaria armata Kuroda, Habe & Kosuge, 1971: synonym of Tenagodus armatus (Habe & Kosuge, 1967)

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 limonensis Olsson, 1922: synonym of Tenagodus modestus (Dall, 1881)

Siliquaria maoria Powell, 1940: synonym of Tenagodus maoria (Powell, 1940)

Siliquaria modesta Dall, 1881: synonym of Tenagodus modestus (Dall, 1881)

Siliquaria norai Bozzetti, 1998: synonym of Tenagodus norai (Bozzetti, 1998)

Siliquaria ponderosa Mörch, 1861: synonym of Tenagodus ponderosus (Mörch, 1861)

Siliquaria sculpturata Gabb, 1881: synonym of Tenagodus squamatus (Blainville, 1827)

Siliquaria senegalensis (Mörch, 1860): synonym of Tenagodus senegalensis (Récluz in Mörch, 1860)

Siliquaria squamata Blainville, 1827: synonym of Tenagodus squamatus (Blainville, 1827)

Siliquaria tahitensis (Mörch, 1861): synonym of Tenagodus tahitensis Mörch, 1861

Siliquaria trochlearis (Mörch, 1860): synonym of Tenagodes trochlearis (Mörch, 1861)

Siliquaria weldii Tenison Woods, 1876: synonym of Tenagodus weldii Tenison-Woods, 1876

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