Dendropoma

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Dendropoma
Dendropoma petraeum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Vermetidae
Subfamily: Dendrioimatinae
Genus: Dendropoma
Mörch, 1861
Species

See text.

Synonyms[1]
  • Bivonia Gray, 1842
  • Siphonium Gray, 1850
  • Veristoa Iredale, 1937
  • Vermetus (Bivonia) Gray, 1842

Dendropoma is a genus of irregularly coiled sea snails known as "worm shells" or "worm snails". These are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails.

Species[edit]

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Dendropoma :[1]

Species brought into synonymy
  • Dendropoma annulatus auct.: synonym of Dendropoma corrodens (d’Orbigny, 1841)
  • Dendropoma cristatum (Biondi, 1857): synonym of Dendropoma petraeum (Monterosato, 1884)
  • Dendropoma gregaria [sic] : synonym of Dendropoma gregarium Hadfield & Kay, 1972
  • Dendropoma mejillonensis [sic]: synonym of Dendropoma mejillonense Pacheco & Laudien, 2008

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b WoRMS : Dendropoma; accessed : 19 January 2012
  2. ^ a b ITIS : Dendropoma; accessed : 17 September 2010
  • Dautzenberg, P. (1923). Liste préliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux especes nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie 68: 21-74
  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
  • Calvo M., Templado J. & Penchaszadeh P.E. (1998). Reproductive biology of the gregarious Mediterranean vermetid gastropod Dendropoma petraeum. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 78: 525-549
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
  • Spencer, H.; Marshall. B. (2009). All Mollusca except Opisthobranchia. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp

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