Dendropoma

Dendropoma is a genus of irregularly coiled sea snails known as "worm shells" or "worm snails". These are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails.

Dendropoma
Dendropoma petraeum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Vermetidae
Subfamily:	Dendrioimatinae
Genus:	Dendropoma Mörch, 1861
Species
See text.
Synonyms[1]
Bivonia Gray, 1842 Siphonium Gray, 1850 Veristoa Iredale, 1937 Vermetus (Bivonia) Gray, 1842

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Dendropoma :^[1]

• Dendropoma andamanicum (Prashad & Rao, 1933)
• Dendropoma anguliferum (Monterosato, 1884)
• Dendropoma corallinaceum (Tomlin, 1939)
• Dendropoma corrodens (d’Orbigny, 1842) - ringed wormsnail
• Dendropoma cristatum (Biondi-Giunti, 1859)
• Dendropoma ghanaense Keen & Morton, 1960
• Dendropoma gregarium Hadfield & Kay, 1972
• Dendropoma irregulare (d’Orbigny, 1842) - irregular wormsnail
• Dendropoma lituella (Mörch, 1861) - flat wormsnail^[2]
• Dendropoma marchadi Keen & Morton, 1960
• Dendropoma maximum Sowerby, 1825
• Dendropoma mejillonense Pacheco & Laudien, 2008
• Dendropoma meroclista Hadfield & Kay, 1972
• Dendropoma nebulosum (Dillwyn, 1817)
• Dendropoma planatum (Suter, 1913)
• Dendropoma psarocephala Hadfield & Kay, 1972
• Dendropoma rastrum (Mörch, 1861) - California wormsnail^[2]
• Dendropoma rhyssoconcha Hadfield & Kay, 1972
• Dendropoma squamiferum Ponder, 1967
• Dendropoma tholia Keen & Morton, 1960

Species brought into synonymy

• Dendropoma annulatus auct.: synonym of Dendropoma corrodens (d’Orbigny, 1841)
• Dendropoma gregaria [sic] : synonym of Dendropoma gregarium Hadfield & Kay, 1972
• Dendropoma mejillonensis [sic]: synonym of Dendropoma mejillonense Pacheco & Laudien, 2008
• Dendropoma petraeum (Monterosato, 1884): synonym of Dendropoma cristatum (Biondi, 1857)