Dendropoma squamifera

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Dendropoma squamifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Caenogastropoda
Order: Sorbeoconcha
Suborder: Hypsogastropoda
Family: Vermetidae
Genus: Dendropoma
Species: D. squamifera
Binomial name
Dendropoma squamifera
(Hutton, 1873)

Dendropoma squamifera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails.

[edit] Distribution

This species is endemic to the east coast of Northland in the North Island of New Zealand.

[edit] Description

The shell is large, with a tube diameter of up to 10 mm, loosely coiled, and evidently lightly attached to rocks. It is sculptured with spiny longitudinal ribs, two of them forming main carinae.

Coloration is pale reddish to yellowish-brown.

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