Epidendrium

fragile shells with distinct teleoconch sculpture of low, costal ribs and spiral threads. The shell shapes vary between very broad and relatively slender conical
The snails live on soft corals Dendrophylliidae

Genotype:

E. sordidum A. & E. Gittenberger, 2005

Literature cited:

Brown, L. & Neville, B.D. (2015). Catalog of the recent taxa of the families Epitoniidae and Nystiellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with a bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature. Zootaxa. 3907(1). pp: 001-188
Gittenberger A. & Gittenberger E. (2005). A hitherto unnoticed adaptive radiation: epitoniid species (Gastropoda: Epitoniidae) associated with corals (Scleractinia).. Contributions to Zoology. 74(1-2). pp: 125-203
Nakayama, T. & Kazunori, H. (2016). Description of a New Species of the Genus Epidendrium from Japan, with Taxonomical Comments on the Taxa Previously Assigned to the Genus Alora in the Northwestern Pacific (Gastropoda: Epitoniidae). Venus. 71(1-2). pp: 19-26