Genus Tenagodus Geuttard, 1770

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• Tenagodus Guettard, J.É. 1770. Classe des tuyaux marins. Mémoires sur Différentes Parties des Sciences et Arts 3: 59-178 [entire volume 544 pp.; digital copy available at http://www.animalbase.unigoettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/reference?id=1286] [128] [the availability of the name and its precedence over Siliquaria are discussed by Bieler (1992)].

  Type species:

   Serpula anguina Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Bieler, R. & Petit, R.E. 2011. Catalogue of Recent and fossil “worm-snail” taxa of the families Vermetidae, Siliquariidae, and Turritellidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda). Zootaxa 2948: 1-103 [73].
• Siliquaria Bruguière, J.G. 1789. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle des Vers. Paris : Agasse Vol. 1(1) i-xviii, 757 pp. [xv] [objective synonym; no originally included species. Silicaria [Daudin, 1800, Recueil de mémoires et de notes sur les mollusques et les vers: 33] is an incorrect subsequent spelling. See also Siliquarius and Anguinaria].

  Type species:

   Serpula anguina Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent monotypy, see Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de Monet de 1799. Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification de coquilles, comprenent une réaction appropiée de charactères génériques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 1: 63-91 [May 1799] [78].
• Anguinaria Schumacher, C.F. 1817. Essai d'un Nouveau Systéme des Habitations des vers Testacés. Copenhagen : Schultz 287 pp., pls 1-22. [80, 262] [substitute name for Siliquaria "Lamarck" (= Bruguière, 1789), by Schumacher treated as a junior homonym of "Silicaria" (= Siliquaria Schumacher, 1817) [Bivalvia]; junior homonym of Anguinaria Lamarck, 1816 [Bryozoa]].
• Pyxipoma Mörch, 1860 [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 28(3): 409].

  Type species:

   Siliquaria lactea Lamarck by original designation.
• Tenagodes Fischer, P. 1885. Manuel de Conchyliologie et de Paléontologie Conchyliologique ou histoire naturelle des mollusques vivant et fossiles. Paris : F. Savy Vol. 8 689-791 pp. [692] [invalid name; unjustified emendation of Tenagodus].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bieler, R. 1992. Tenagodus or Siliquaria? Unravelling taxonomic confusion in marine `worm-snails' (Cerithioidea: Siliquariidae). Nautilus 106(1): 15-20

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

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