''Dendrotrochus'' is a
genus
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of small air-breathing
land snail
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s,
terrestrial
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pulmonate
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gastropod
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mollusk
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s in the family
Trochomorphidae
Trochomorphidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Since 2017, its classification has be ...
, the hive snails.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Dendrotrochus Pilsbry, 1894. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995239 on 2020-10-18]
Species
Species within the genus ''Dendrotrochus'' include:
* ''
Dendrotrochus arrowensis''
(Le Guillou, 1842)
* ''
Dendrotrochus cineraceus''
(Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841)
* ''
Dendrotrochus coultasi''
Clench, 1957
* ''
Dendrotrochus dahli''
Thiele, 1928
* ''
Dendrotrochus helicinoides''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1849)
* ''
Dendrotrochus huberi''
Thach, 2020
* ''
Dendrotrochus kraemeri''
Thiele, 1928
* ''
Dendrotrochus layardi''
(Hartman, 1889)
* ''
Dendrotrochus leucotropis''
(Pfeiffer, 1861)
* ''
Dendrotrochus mentum''
Hedley, 1899
* ''
Dendrotrochus stramineus''
Sykes, 1903
* ''
Dendrotrochus thachi''
F. Huber, 2020
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Dendrotrochus labillardierei''
(E. A. Smith, 1884): synonym of ''Dendrotrochus helicinoides labillardierei ''
(E. A. Smith, 1884)
* ''Dendrotrochus ponapensis''
H. B. Baker, 1941: synonym of ''
Ponapea ponapensis''
(H. B. Baker, 1941) (original combination)
References
* Delsaerdt A., 2016 Land snails on the Solomon Islands. Vol. III. Trochomorphidae and systematical review of all other families. Ancona: L'Informatore Piceno. 160 pp
External links
Pilsbry, H. A. (1893-1895). Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, Second series: Pulmonata. Vol. 9, Helicidae vol. 7, pp. 1-48, pls 1-14Solem, A. (1959). Systematics and zoogeography of the land and fresh-water Mollusca of the New Hebrides. Fieldiana Zoology. 4(3): 1-359
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Trochomorphidae
Taxa named by Henry Augustus Pilsbry
Gastropod genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot