| Dentarene | |
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| Shell of Dentarene sarcina | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Liotiidae |
| Genus: | Dentarene Iredale, 1929 |
| Type species | |
| Dentarene sarcina Iredale, 1929 | |
Dentarene is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae.
Description
The special characteristics of this genus are
- 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 : synonym of Dentarene munita Iredale, 1929
References
- Iredale (1929), Mem. Queensland Mus. vol. 9, p.274
- Dentarene. 22 August 2013. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- 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
- Dentarene rosadoi Bozzetti & Ferrario, 2005. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Dentarene | |