Dentarene is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae.
Description The special characteristics of this genus are 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 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 Dentarene sarcina Iredale, 1929 Species brought into synonymy Dentarene munitus [sic]: synonym of Dentarene munita Iredale, 1929
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