Stromboidea

• Aporrhaidae
  • Dimorphosoma Gardner, 1875

Original Description of the Genus Dimorphosoma by Gardner, 1875:

• "Shell fusiform, with dilated wing, spire elongated; always possessing two, rarely three keels, which are generally obscured, except on the apex and last whorls, by transverse ribbing; whorls numerous, usually finely striated, sometimes smooth, either keeled or ribbed transversely; apex more or less obtuse; aperture narrow; with a long or short canal in front; outer lip expanded into a simple grooved digitation. The wing attached to the last two whorls only."

Type species of Dimorphosoma is Rostellaria calcarata J.Sowerby, 1822

Dimorphosoma species are:

• Dimorphosoma acuta (d'Orbigny, 1843)
• Dimorphosoma ancylochila Gardner, 1875
• Dimorphosoma calcarata (J. Sowerby, 1822)
• Dimorposoma calcarifera Kaunhowen, 1891
• Dimorphosoma doratochila Gardner, 1875
• Dimorphosoma kinclispira Gardner, 1875
• Dimorphosoma laevigata (Zekeli, 1852)
• Dimorphosoma muleti (d'Orbigny, 1850)
• Dimorphosoma neglecta (Tate, 1865)
• Dimorphosoma opeatochila Gardner, 1875
• Dimorphosoma pleurospira Gardner, 1875
• Dimorphosoma spathochila Gardner, 1875
• Dimorphosoma substenoptera Müller, 1898
• Dimorphosoma tricostata (d'Orbigny, 1843)
• Dimorphosoma vectiana Gardner, 1875
• Dimorphosoma weaveri Cataldo, 2014

might belong to Dimorphosoma

• Aporrhais trichinopolitensis Spengler, 1914
• Drepanochilus elongatodigitatus Nagao, 1934
• Rostellaria laevigata Sowerby, 1832

Undetermined species:

• Dimorphosoma sp Flaesheim
• Dimorphosoma sp

References

• Cataldo, 2014
• Gardner, 1875
• Kollmann, 2005