Dendrotrochus

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

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Dendrotrochus
Shell of Dendrotrochus cineraceus (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Trochomorphidae
Genus: Dendrotrochus
Pilsbry, 1894
Type species
Helix helicinoides
L. Pfeiffer, 1849
Synonyms
  • Dendrotrochus (Dendrotrochus) Pilsbry, 1894· accepted, alternate representation
  • Dendrotrochus (Santotrochus) Solem, 1959· accepted, alternate representation
  • Papuina (Dendrotrochus) Pilsbry, 1894 (original rank)
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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)

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