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Vermetus
Sign in to saveVermetus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells.
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Vinony's link graph records 25 inbound references to Vermetus, and connects out to Mollusca, Thylacodes arenarius and Animalia.
It is catalogued under topics including Callovian first appearances, Extant Middle Jurassic first appearances and Gastropod genera without authority reference.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderLittorinimorpha
- FamilyVermetidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 793
- With media
- 78
- Family
- Vermetidae
- Collections
- PRI, NHMUK, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, UF, YPM, CAS
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, United States, Panama, Peru, Barbados
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Vermetidae
- Image
- Vermetus Pliocene Cyprus aperture view.jpg
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- taxon name
- Vermetus
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Vermetus
- Commons category
- Vermetus
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Encyclopedic overview
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Vermetus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells.
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).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vermetus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.