Tenagodus anguinus

Tenagodus anguinus is a species of unusual sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Siliquariidae, the slit worm shells.

Tenagodus anguinus
Five view of a shell of Tenagodus anguinus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Siliquariidae
Genus:	Tenagodus
Species:	T. anguinus
Binomial name
Tenagodus anguinus (Linnaeus, 1758) [1]
Synonyms[1]
Serpula anguina Linnaeus, 1758 Serpula muricata Born, 1780 Serpula volvox Dillwyn, 1817 Tenagodes anguinus Linnaeus, 1758

Description

The shell is thick and irregularly coiled in a gradually tapered spiral, with rather distant whorls. It has longitudinal ridges with spines on them throughout its length. It is generally a dirty-looking white colour, pale yellow or buff. The uncoiled length could be up to 8 inches (200 mm).^[2][3]

Distribution

Tenagodus anguinus is found in the Indian Ocean including around Madagascar.^[1][3]

References

1. Decock, Wim (2010). "Tenagodus anguinus (Linnaeus, 1758)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2012-01-11.
2. Siliquaria anguina BioSearch. Retrieved 2012-01-11.
3. Dillwyn, Lewis Weston (1817). A descriptive catalogue of recent shells. p. 1080.

• Born I. von (1780). Testacea Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis (...). Kraus, Vienna pp. XXXVI + 442 + 18 pl: page(s): 440
• Dillwyn, L. W. 1817. A descriptive catalogue of Recent shells, arranged according to the Linnean method; with particular attention to the synonymy. London: John and Arthur Arch. Vol. 2:581-1092 + index [29 pp.]. page(s): 1079, 1080
• Tryon, G. W. 1886. Naticidae, Calyptraeidae, Pyramidellidae. Manual of Conchology 8. Philadelphia. page(s): 256
• Hartman, Olga 1959. Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation, 23: 628pp
• Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999) Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 749 pp
• 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.
• Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta

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)