Dentarene

Dentarene is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae.[2]

Dentarene
Shell of Dentarene sarcina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Liotiidae
Genus:	Dentarene Iredale, 1929 [1]
Type species
Dentarene sarcina Iredale, 1929

Description

The special characteristics of this genus are [3]

• a white shell
• a strongly varicose lip
• the umbilical ridge becomes a twisted appendage of the columellar region of the inner lip
• there is almost no axial sculpture, or it becomes interrupted except between the two peripheral keels.

Distribution

The species of this genus occurs in the tropical Indo-West Pacific.

Species

Species within the genus Dentarene include:

• Dentarene loculosa (Gould, 1859)
• Dentarene munita Iredale, 1929
• Dentarene rosadoi Bozzetti & Ferrario, 2005[4]
• Dentarene sarcina Iredale, 1929

Species brought into synonymy

• Dentarene munitus [sic]: synonym of Dentarene munita Iredale, 1929

References

1. Iredale (1929), Mem. Queensland Mus. vol. 9, p.274
2. Dentarene . 22 August 2013. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
3. Henry Pilsbry (1933), Notes on the Gastropod Genus Liotia and Its Allies; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 85, (1933), pp. 375-381
4. Dentarene rosadoi Bozzetti & Ferrario, 2005. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.