| Siliquaria | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Family: | Siliquariidae |
| Genus: | Siliquaria Bruguière, 1789[1] |
| Type species | |
| Serpula anguina Linnaeus, 1758 | |
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Siliquaria, common name the slit worm snails, is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Siliquariidae.
Siliquaria is the type genus of the family Siliquariidae.
Siliquaria is considered to be an objective synonym of Tenagodus Guettard, 1770 in World Register of Marine Species.[2]
- ^ Bruguière J. G. (1789). Ency. Méth. (Vers) (1), xv.
- ^ Gofas, S. (2009). Tenagodus Guettard, 1770. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138485 on 2010-05-19