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

Dendropoma cristatum (Biondi-Giunti, 1859)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Vermetus Daudin, 1800

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Dendropoma*	Mörch, 1861	accepted genus name
*Bivonia*	Gray, 1842	junior homonym
*Vermetus (Bivonia)*	Gray, 1842	synonym

Species group names

*Vermetus glomeratus*	Bivona e Bernardi, 1832	junior homonym
*Dendropoma petraeum*	(Monterosato, 1884)	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Terlizzi, A.; Scuderi, D.; Fraschetti, S.; Anderson, M. J. (2005). Quantifying effects of pollution on biodiversity: a case study of highly diverse molluscan assemblages in the Mediterranean. Marine Biology. 148, 293-305.
additional source	Landau, B. M.; Ceulemans, L.; Van Dingenen, F. (2018). The upper Miocene gastropods of northwestern France, 2. Caenogastropoda. Cainozoic Research. 18 (2): 177-368.
additional source	Bieler, R. & Petit, R. E. (2011). Catalogue of Recent and fossil “worm-snail” taxa of the families Vermetidae, Siliquariidae, and Turritellidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda). Zootaxa. 2948: 1-103.
source of synonymy	Scuderi D. (1995). Il genere Dendropoma (Gastropoda, Vermetidae) nel Mediterraneo. Bollettino Malacologico 31(1-4): 1-6
redescription	Templado J., Richter A. & Calvo M. (2016). Reef building Mediterranean vermetid gastropods: disentangling the Dendropoma petraeum species complex. Mediterranean Marine Science. 17: 13-31.
status 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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Dendropoma cristatum (Biondi-Giunti, 1859). 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:195911