Dentarene Explained

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

Description

The special characteristics of this genus are ^[1]

• 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:

• Dentarene loculosa (Gould, 1859)
• Dentarene munita Iredale, 1929
• Dentarene rosadoi Bozzetti & Ferrario, 2005
• Dentarene sarcina Iredale, 1929

Species brought into synonymy:

• Dentarene munitus [sic]: synonym of Dentarene munita Iredale, 1929

Notes and References

1. 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