Dentarene

Dentarene is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae.[2]

Dentarene
Shell of Dentarene sarcina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:
Trochoidea
Family:
Liotiidae
Genus:
Dentarene

Iredale, 1929 [1]
Type species
Dentarene sarcina Iredale, 1929

Description

The special characteristics of this genus are [3]

  • a white shell
  • a strongly varicose lip
  • the umbilical ridge becomes a twisted appendage of the columellar region of the inner lip
  • there is almost no axial sculpture, or it becomes interrupted except between the two peripheral keels.

Distribution

The species of this genus occurs in the tropical Indo-West Pacific.

Species

Species within the genus Dentarene include:

Species brought into synonymy

References
  1. Iredale (1929), Mem. Queensland Mus. vol. 9, p.274
  2. Dentarene . 22 August 2013. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  3. Henry Pilsbry (1933), Notes on the Gastropod Genus Liotia and Its Allies; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 85, (1933), pp. 375-381
  4. Dentarene rosadoi Bozzetti & Ferrario, 2005. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
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