Dendrotrochus

Dendrotrochus
Shell of Dendrotrochus cineraceus (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific 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.

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

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• 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