African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Dendropoma Mörch, 1861

AphiaID

138649 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138649)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Vermetidae Rafinesque, 1815

Original name

Siphonium (Dendropoma) Mörch, 1861

Synonymised names

Bivonia J. E. Gray, 1842 · unaccepted (junior homonym of Bivonia Cocco,...)

junior homonym of Bivonia Cocco, 1832 in Crustacea

Siphonium J. E. Gray, 1850 · unaccepted > junior homonym (of Siphonium Link, 1807)

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Species Dendropoma corallinaceum (Tomlin, 1939)
Species Dendropoma cristatum (Biondi-Giunti, 1859)
Species Dendropoma ghanaense Keen & J. E. Morton, 1960
Species Dendropoma tholia Keen & J. E. Morton, 1960
Species Dendropoma maximum (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825) accepted as Ceraesignum maximum (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825)
Species Dendropoma petraeum (Monterosato, 1884) accepted as Dendropoma cristatum (Biondi-Giunti, 1859) (synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Grammatical gender

neuter

Original description

(of ) Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1861). Review of the Vermetidae (Part I). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1861: 145-181, pl. 25 [September]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28672669
page(s): 153 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Dendropoma Mörch, 1861. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138649 on 2026-07-30

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Dendropoma Mörch, 1861. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138649 on 2026-07-30

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2006-03-16 07:42:42Z

checked

Wambiji, Nina

2012-05-27 14:23:31Z

checked

Rosenberg, Gary

2012-10-25 15:40:22Z

changed

Bieler, Rüdiger

2014-06-30 22:21:29Z

changed

Bieler, Rüdiger

2019-11-15 00:35:16Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2023-10-07 08:20:51Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2026-01-08 18:44:21Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

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original description (of Siphonium J. E. Gray, 1850) Gray, J. E. (1850). [text]. In: Gray, M. E., Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. Vol. 4, iv + 219 pp. (August) [Frontispiece (portrait of Mrs. Gray); pp. ii–iv (preface); 1–62 (explanation of plates 1–312 in Volumes 1–3); pp. 63–124 (systematic arrangement of figures); 127–219 (reprint of Gray 1847). , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11632090 [details]

original description (of Bivonia J. E. Gray, 1842) Gray, J. E. (1842). Molluscs. Pp. 48-92, in: Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum, edition 44. British Museum. London. iv + 308 p. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55295773 [details]

original description (of ) Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1861). Review of the Vermetidae (Part I). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1861: 145-181, pl. 25 [September]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28672669
page(s): 153 [details]

additional source Calvo M., Templado J. & Penchaszadeh P.E. (1998). Reproductive biology of the gregarious Mediterranean vermetid gastropod Dendropoma petraeum. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 78: 525-549, available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400041606 [details]

additional source Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]

additional source Golding, R. E.; Bieler, R.; Rawlings, T. A.; Collins, T. M. (2014). Deconstructing Dendropoma: a systematic revision of a world-wide worm-snail group with descriptions of new genera (Caenogastropoda: Vermetidae). Malacologia. 57(1): 1-97., available online at https://doi.org/10.4002/040.057.0103
page(s): 17; note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus) [details] Available for editors

additional source ICZN. (1987). Opinion 1425. Suppressed: Spiroglyphus Daudin, 1800 and Stoa De Serres, Mollusca, Gastropoda) and specific names published in combination with them. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 44(1): 57-58., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12229416 [details]

subsequent type designation Keen, M. (1961). A proposed reclassification of the gastropod family Vermetidae. Bulletin of the British Museum, Natural History (Zoology). 7(3): 183-213, pls. 54-55 [February]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27756384
page(s): 189 [details]

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