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Vermicularia spirata (Philippi, 1836) 
AphiaID: 160074

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order) > Cerithioidea (Superfamily) > Turritellidae (Family) > Vermiculariinae (Subfamily) > Vermicularia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Vermicularia Lamarck, 1799
Synonymised
taxa
  Vermetus quadrangulus Philippi, 1848
Vermetus spiratus Philippi, 1836 (original combination)
Vermiculus spiratus (Philippi, 1836) (genus invalid)
Vermiculus spiratus var. bicarinata Mörch, 1861 (infrasubspecific)
Vermiculus spiratus var. melanosclera Mörch, 1861 (infrasubspecific)
Vermiculus spiratus var. quadrangularis Mörch, 1861 (infrasubspecific)
Vermiculus spiratus var. scalaris Mörch, 1861 (infrasubspecific)
Vermiculus spiratus var. teres Mörch, 1861 (infrasubspecific)
Vermiculus spiratus var. ungulina Mörch, 1861 (infrasubspecific)
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C  [details]

additional source: Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

from synonym: Bieler, R. & R. E. Petit, 2011, Catalogue of Recent and fossil “worm-snail” taxa of the families Vermetidae, Siliquariidae, and Turritellidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda). Zootaxa, 2948, 1-103. , available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt02948p103.pdf
page(s): 60 [details] [view taxon]


from synonym: Philippi, R.A. (1836). Beschreibung einiger neuen Conchylien-Arten und Bemerkungen über die Gattung Lacuna von Turton. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 2(1): 224–235, pls. 7–8.
page(s): 224-225 [details] [view taxon]


from synonym: Philippi, R.A. (1848). Testaceorum novorum centuria. (Continiatio). Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie, 5(2): 17–27.
page(s): 17 [details] [view taxon]


from synonym: Moerch, O. A. L. (1861). Review of the Vermetidae (Part I). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1861: 145-181, pl. 25 [September]
page(s): 174 [details] [view taxon]


Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English West Indian worm-shell  [details]
English West Indian wormsnail  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Caribbean Sea [details]
Cayman Islands [details]
Colombia [details]
Cuba [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Jamaica [details]
Lesser Antilles [details]
Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Puerto Rico [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (37 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Note  Distribution: Virginian, southside of Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras [details]
Image 
Vermicularia spirata
Vermicularia spirata
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:160074
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-30 09:27:08Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-03-31 06:40:42Z  checked  Rosenberg, Gary
2012-11-01 13:39:16Z  changed  Bieler, Rudiger
  
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  Citation: Bieler, R.; Rosenberg, G. (2013). Vermicularia spirata (Philippi, 1836). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=160074 on 2013-05-22
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