Jeff Goddard, USA
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Dendronotus robustus A. E. Verrill, 1870
Dendronotus robustus has a broad body that can grow up to 50 mm long. Above the mouth it has a mouth veil with 10-15 long and pointedly branched appendages. The rinophores sit in a long rinophore sheath, which has 4-5 long branched outgrowths on the edge. The rinophores are laminated with 7-14 lamellae. The body has 6 pairs of gills along the edge on each side. The gills have a short stalk, they are branched and some of these branches, in turn, are branched with thin tips.
The body is reddish and reddish to grayish in color, with scattered white spots.
The species is known from cold waters in the northeastern United States and Canada. In addition, the species appears to have a limited distribution in Russian areas in the eastern Barents Sea. According to the revision of the species, its range is probably Norway around Svalbard.
The species lives on soft bottoms in shallow water. It is believed that the tree snail is an omnivore, for animals that live on and in the sediment.
There is a possibility of confusion with Dendronotus velifer.
Dendronotus robustus has a broad body that can grow up to 50 mm long. Above the mouth it has a mouth veil with 10-15 long and pointedly branched appendages. The rinophores sit in a long rinophore sheath, which has 4-5 long branched outgrowths on the edge. The rinophores are laminated with 7-14 lamellae. The body has 6 pairs of gills along the edge on each side. The gills have a short stalk, they are branched and some of these branches, in turn, are branched with thin tips.
The body is reddish and reddish to grayish in color, with scattered white spots.
The species is known from cold waters in the northeastern United States and Canada. In addition, the species appears to have a limited distribution in Russian areas in the eastern Barents Sea. According to the revision of the species, its range is probably Norway around Svalbard.
The species lives on soft bottoms in shallow water. It is believed that the tree snail is an omnivore, for animals that live on and in the sediment.
There is a possibility of confusion with Dendronotus velifer.
