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Taxonomy
Family:
SILIQUARIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order)
> Cerithioidea (Superfamily)
> Siliquariidae (Family)
> Tenagodus (Genus)
> weldii (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Agathirses Montfort, 1808
=Anguinaria Schumacher, 1817
=Pyxipoma Mörch, 1861
=Siliquaria Bruguière, 1789
=Tenagodes P. Fischer, 1885
=Tenagodus (Tenagodus) Guettard, 1770
Synonymised Names:
=Pyxipoma weldii (Tenison-Woods, 1876)
Images: Tenagodus weldii (Tenison-Woods, 1876)
Living in sponge in deep water, western Bay of Plenty, NZ. 39mm
Taxonomy
Family:
SILIQUARIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order)
> Cerithioidea (Superfamily)
> Siliquariidae (Family)
> Tenagodus (Genus)
> weldii (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Agathirses Montfort, 1808
=Anguinaria Schumacher, 1817
=Pyxipoma Mörch, 1861
=Siliquaria Bruguière, 1789
=Tenagodes P. Fischer, 1885
=Tenagodus (Tenagodus) Guettard, 1770
Synonymised Names:
=Pyxipoma weldii (Tenison-Woods, 1876)
Details: Tenagodus weldii (Tenison-Woods, 1876)
Size/Grows to:
Length 65mm
Distribution:
North Island and Chatham Islands
Geographical Range:
ACME.
Notes:
Corkscrew Shell, Marine, Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • 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 (p.68)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.130)
  • Tenison Woods, J.T. 1876 Descriptions of new Tasmanian shells, Papers and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of Tasmania (p.144) Original Description

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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