Dendropoma corrodens

Dendropoma corrodens is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells.^[1]

Dendropoma corrodens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Vermetidae
Genus:	Dendropoma
Species:	D. corrodens
Binomial name
Dendropoma corrodens (d’Orbigny, 1841)

Distribution

Found in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.^[1]

Description

The shell of this cemented species is usually not straight but coiled in one loose and irregular coil, however, the maximum recorded shell length is 10 mm.^[2]

Habitat

The minimum recorded depth is 0 m; maximum recorded depth is 0 m.^[2]