Vermetus

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Vermetus
Temporal range: Jurassic–Recent
Vermetus Pliocene Cyprus aperture view.jpg
Vermetus sp., Nicosia Formation, Pliocene, Cyprus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Vermetidae
Genus: Vermetus
Daudin, 1800
Type species
*Vermetus adansonii
Daudin, 1800
Synonyms [1]
  • ThylaeodusMörch, 1860

Vermetus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells. [1]

Contents

The genus Vermetus is very ancient: it occurs in the fossil record from the Jurassic to the Quaternary (age range: from 164.7 to 0.0 million years ago). [2]

Species

Species within the genus Vermetus include:

Species brought into synonymy

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References

  1. 1 2 Vermetus Daudin, 1800 . Gofas, S. (2009). Vermetus Daudin, 1800. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138652 on 11 February 2012 .
  2. Fossilworks
  3. Vermetus afer (Gmelin, 1791) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 9 July 2010.
  4. Rüdiger Bieler, Timothy M. Collins, Rosemary Golding andTimothy A. Rawlings, A novel and enigmatic two-holed shell aperture in a new species of suspension-feeding worm-snail (Vermetidae); PeerJ, 2019
  5. Vermetus enderli Schiaparelli & Metivier, 2000 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 9 July 2010.
  6. Vermetus eruca (Lamarck, 1818) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 9 July 2010.
  7. Vermetus granulatus (Gravenhorst, 1831) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 9 July 2010.
  8. Vermetus intestinalis (Gmelin, 1791) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 9 July 2010.
  9. "Vermetus scaber", Molluscabase, LifeWatch Belgium, 2023.
  10. Vermetus triquetrus Bivona Ant., 1832 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 9 July 2010.
  11. Vermetus alii Hadfield & Kay, 1972 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 9 July 2010.
  12. Vermetus cristatus Biondi, 1857 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 9 July 2010.
  13. Vermetus gigas Bivona in Philippi, 1836 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 9 July 2010.
  14. Vermetus goreensis (Gmelin, 1791) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 9 July 2010.
  15. Vermetus masier Deshayes, 1843 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 9 July 2010.
  16. Vermetus rugulosus Monterosato<, 1878 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 9 July 2010.
  17. Vermetus selectus (Monterasato, 1892) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 9 July 2010.
  18. Vermetus semisurrectus Bivona Ant., 1832 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 9 July 2010.