Species Tenagodus australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Siliquaria australis Quoy, J.R. & Gaimard, J.P. 1834. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826-1829. Paris : J. Tastu Zoologie Vol. 3 366 pp. [302].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Western Port, Victoria.

 

Generic Combinations

• Tenogodus australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834). —
  Bieler, R. 1992. Tenagodus or Siliquaria? Unravelling taxonomic confusion in marine `worm-snails' (Cerithioidea: Siliquariidae). Nautilus 106(1): 15-20
  Beechey, D. 2007. Tenagodus australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Siliquariidae/Pages/Tenagodus_australis.htm (date accessed 9/11/2011; new combination)
  Grove, S. 2011. The Seashells of Tasmania: A Comprehensive Guide. Taroona, Australia : Taroona Publications 81 pp. [38]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Siliquaria (Siliquaria) australis Quoy & Gaimard, 1834. —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [141]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Embedded in sponges; to 150 m

 

General References

Beechey, D. 2007. Tenagodus australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Siliquariidae/Pages/Tenagodus_australis.htm (date accessed 9/11/2011)

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [359]

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [48]

Rosenberg, G. 2014. Tenagodus australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834). In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=767270 (Accessed on 28 Apr 2017)

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

 

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [93] (Australian Worm Shell)

 

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