Genus of gastropods
Vermetus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells.[1]
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:
- Vermetus adansonii Daudin, 1800
- Vermetus afer (Gmelin, 1791)[3]
- Vermetus annulus Rousseau in Chenu, 1843
- Vermetus balanitintinnabuli Mörch, 1862
- Vermetus bieleri Scuderi, Swinnen & Templado, 2017
- Vermetus biperforatus Bieler, Collins, Golding & Rawlings, 2019 [4]
- Vermetus brasiliensis Rousseau in Chenu, 1844
- Vermetus carinatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1834
- Vermetus dentiferus Rousseau in Chenu, 1844
- Vermetus enderli Schiaparelli & Metivier, 2000[5]
- Vermetus eruca (Lamarck, 1818)[6] (taxon inquirendum)
- Vermetus granulatus (Gravenhorst, 1831)[7]
- Vermetus intestinalis (Gmelin, 1791)[8] (taxon inquirendum)
- Vermetus periscopium Barnard, 1963
- Vermetus reticulatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1834
- Vermetus sansibaricus Thiele, 1925
- Vermetus scaber Gravenhorst, 1831[9]
- Vermetus tonganus Quoy & Gaimard, 1834
- Vermetus triquetrus Bivona Ant., 1832[10]
- Vermetus turonius Rousseau in Chenu, 1844
- Vermetus vitreus Kuroda & Habe, 1972
- Species brought into synonymy
- Vermetus alii Hadfield & Kay, 1972:[11] synonym of Eualetes tulipa (Rousseau in Chenu, 1843) (subjective synonym)
- Vermetus annulatus Costa, 1861: synonym of Filogranula annulata (O. G. Costa, 1861)
- Vermetus calyculatus Costa, 1861: synonym of Filogranula calyculata (O. G. Costa, 1861)
- Vermetus cariniferus Gray, 1843: synonym of Spirobranchus carinifer (Gray, 1843)
- Vermetus centiquadrus Valenciennes, 1846: synonym of Eualetes centiquadrus (Valenciennes, 1846)
- Vermetus cristatus Biondi, 1857:[12] synonym of Dendropoma petraeum
- Vermetus cyclicus Watson, 1886: synonym of Ctiloceras cyclicum (Watson, 1886)
- Vermetus gigas Bivona in Philippi, 1836:[13] synonym of Serpulorbis arenarius
- Vermetus goreensis (Gmelin, 1791):[14] synonym of Vermetidae incertae sedis goreensis (Gmelin, 1791)
- Vermetus indentatus (Carpenter, 1857): synonym of Thylaeodus indentatus (Carpenter, 1857)
- Vermetus knorrii Deshayes, 1843: synonym of Vermicularia knorrii (Deshayes, 1843)
- Vermetus masier Deshayes, 1843:[15] synonym of Thylacodes masier (Deshayes, 1843) (original combination)
- Vermetus mutabilis Costa, 1861: synonym of Filogranula calyculata (O. G. Costa, 1861)
- Vermetus peronii Valenciennes, A., 1846: synonym of Eualetes centiquadrus (Valenciennes, 1846)
- Vermetus quadrangulus Philippi, 1848: synonym of Vermicularia spirata (Philippi, 1836)
- Vermetus quincunx Barnard, 1963: synonym of Stephopoma quincunx (Barnard, 1963)
- Vermetus quinquecostatus Daudin, 1800: synonym of Spirobranchus lima (Grube, 1862)
- Vermetus radilula Stimpson, 1851: synonym of Vermicularia radicula (Stimpson, 1851)
- Vermetus roseus Quoy & Gaimard, 1834: synonym of Stephopoma roseum (Quoy & Gaimard)
- Vermetus rugulosus Monterosato, 1878:[16] synonym of Thylaeodus rugulosus (Monterosato, 1878) (original combination)
- Vermetus selectus (Monterosato, 1892):[17] synonym of Thylacodes arenarius (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Vermetus semisurrectus Bivona Ant., 1832:[18] synonym of Thylaeodus semisurrectus (Bivona-Bernardi, 1832) (original combination)
- Vermetus spiratus Philippi, 1836: synonym of Vermicularia spirata (Philippi, 1836)
- Vermetus tridentatus Daudin, 1800: synonym of Placostegus tridentatus (Fabricius, 1779)