Dendrotrochus

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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)

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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