Dendrotrochus Explained

Dendrotrochus is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Trochomorphidae, the hive snails.^[1]

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 1-14
• Solem, A. (1959). Systematics and zoogeography of the land and fresh-water Mollusca of the New Hebrides. Fieldiana Zoology. 4(3): 1-359

Notes and References

1. 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