Species Tenagodus anguinus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Serpula anguina Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [787].

  Type data:

   Lectotype (Specimen illustrated by Rumphius (1705: pl. 41, fig. H)), "Ambon, Moluccas, Indonesia".

  Subsequent designation references:

  Bieler, R. 2004. Sanitation with sponge and plunger: western Atlantic slit-wormsnails (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Siliquariidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 140: 307-333 [310].

 

Generic Combinations

• Siliquaria (Siliquaria) anguina (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [141, pl. 15, figs 3, 4]
• Tenagodus anguinus (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Bieler, R. 1992. Tenagodus or Siliquaria? Unravelling taxonomic confusion in marine `worm-snails' (Cerithioidea: Siliquariidae). Nautilus 106(1): 15-20

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

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), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

Bouchet, P. 2012. Tenagodus anguinus. In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=367708 (Accessed on 28 Apr 2017)

Habe, T. 1964. Shells of the western Pacific in color. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 2 233 pp., 66 pls. [35]

Verco, J.C. 1912. Shells from the Great Australian Bight. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 36: 206-232 [209]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [141, pl. 15, figs 3, 4]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CERITHIOIDEA	28-Apr-2017	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri
01-Jun-2021	SILIQUARIIDAE	29-Jan-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		07-Nov-2011	MODIFIED