Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Vermetoidea > Family Vermetidae

Dendropoma Mörch, 1861

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Bivonia*	Gray, 1842	junior homonym
*Vermetus (Bivonia)*	Gray, 1842	synonym

Children

Dendropoma anguliferum (Monterosato, 1878)
Dendropoma cristatum (Biondi-Giunti, 1859)
Dendropoma lebeche Templado, Richter & Calvo, 2016

Literature

original description	Mörch, O. A. L. (1861). Review of the Vermetidae (Part I). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1861: 145-181, pl. 25 [September].
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
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.
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.
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.
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]

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Dendropoma Mörch, 1861. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138649