WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Vermetidae Rafinesque, 1815

Vermetidae Rafinesque, 1815
AphiaID: 23139

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Vermetoidea (Superfamily)

Status

accepted

Record
status

Checked by Taxonomic Editor

Rank

Family

Parent

Vermetoidea

Sources

basis of record: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2005) Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47(1-2): 1-397. [details]

additional source: 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 [details]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
English	worm shells	[details]

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taxa
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Genus Cerithiovermetus Bandel, 2006

» Species Cerithiovermetus aqabensis Bandel, 2006
» Species Cerithiovermetus vinxae Bandel, 2006
» Species Cerithiovermetus vinxi Bandel, 2006 accepted as Cerithiovermetus vinxae Bandel, 2006

Genus Dendropoma Mörch, 1861

Genus Eualetes Keen, 1971

» Species Eualetes centiquadrus (Valenciennes, 1846)
» Species Eualetes tulipa (Rousseau in Chenu, 1843)
» Species Eualetes tulipa (Chenu, 1843) accepted as Eualetes tulipa (Rousseau in Chenu, 1843)

Genus Novastoa Finlay, 1926

» Species Novastoa lamellosa (Hutton, 1873)

Genus Petaloconchus Lea, 1843

Genus Thylacodes Guettard, 1770

Genus Thylaeodus Mörch, 1860

» Species Thylaeodus contortus (Mörch, 1860)
» Species Thylaeodus equatorialis Spotorno & Simone, 2013
» Species Thylaeodus indentatus (Carpenter, 1857)
» Species Thylaeodus semisurrectus (Bivona-Bernardi, 1832)

Genus Tripsycha Keen, 1961

» Species Tripsycha tripsycha (Pilsby & Lowe, 1932)
» Subgenus Tripsycha (Eualetes) represented as Eualetes Keen, 1971 (alternate representation)
» Species Tripsycha centiquadra (Valenciennes, 1846) accepted as Eualetes centiquadrus (Valenciennes, 1846)

Genus Vermetidae incertae sedis

» Species Vermetidae incertae sedis imbricatus Pallary, 1938
» Species Vermetidae incertae sedis rupestris (Risso, 1826) (species inquirenda)
» Species Vermetidae incertae sedis goreensis (Gmelin, 1791) (nomen dubium)

Genus Vermetus Daudin, 1800

» Species Vermetus adansonii Daudin, 1800
» Species Vermetus afer (Gmelin, 1791)
» Species Vermetus alii Hadfield & Kay, 1972
» Species Vermetus enderi Schiaparelli in Schiaparelli & Metivier, 2000
» Species Vermetus granulatus (Gravenhorst, 1831)

» Forma Vermetus granulatus f. spongicola Monterosato, 1892 accepted as Vermetus granulatus (Gravenhorst, 1831)

Genus Dofania Mörch, 1860 (nomen dubium)

Subfamily Dendropomatinae Bandel & Kowalke, 1997 (alternate representation)
Subfamily Vermetinae Rafinesque, 1815 (alternate representation)

Genus Aletes Carpenter, 1857 accepted as Thylacodes Guettard, 1770

» Species Aletes squamigerus Carpenter, 1857 accepted as Thylacodes squamigerus (Carpenter, 1857)

Genus Bivonia Gray, 1842 accepted as Dendropoma Mörch, 1861

» Species Bivonia constrictor Mörch, 1862 accepted as Thylacodes constrictor (Mörch, 1862)
» Species Bivonia contorta Carpenter, 1857 accepted as Thylaeodus contortus (Mörch, 1860)

» Variety Bivonia contorta var. indentata Carpenter, 1857 accepted as Thylaeodus indentatus (Carpenter, 1857)

» Species Bivonia petraea Monterosato, 1884 accepted as Dendropoma petraeum (Monterosato, 1884)
» Species Bivonia pteriae Parenzan, 1970 accepted as Vermetus granulatus (Gravenhorst, 1831)
» Species Bivonia serpuloides Monterosato, 1892 accepted as Vermetus granulatus (Gravenhorst, 1831)

Genus Macrophragma Carpenter, 1857 accepted as Petaloconchus Lea, 1843
Genus Serpulorbis Sasso, 1827 accepted as Thylacodes Guettard, 1770

Genus Siphonium Gray, 1850 accepted as Dendropoma Mörch, 1861

» Species Siphonium gaederopi Mörch, 1861
» Species Siphonium adamsii Mörch, 1859 accepted as Thylacodes adamsii (Mörch, 1859)
» Species Siphonium lamellosum Hutton, 1873 accepted as Novastoa lamellosa (Hutton, 1873)
» Species Siphonium lituella Mörch, 1861 accepted as Dendropoma lituella (Mörch, 1861)
» Species Siphonium maximum Sowerby, 1825 accepted as Dendropoma maximum Sowerby, 1825

Genus Tetranemia Mörch, 1859 accepted as Thylacodes Guettard, 1770
Genus Tulaxoda Blainville, 1828 accepted as Thylacodes Guettard, 1770
Genus Tulaxodus Guettard, 1770 accepted as Thylacodes Guettard, 1770
Genus Vermiculus Da Costa, 1776 accepted as Dofania Mörch, 1860

Environment

marine

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Links

To GenBank
To image gallery of Natural History Museum Rotterdam
To ITIS

Note

Classification: The position of the Vermetidae has been controversial. However, sperm ultrastructure (Healy, 1988) and molecular data (e.g., Colgan et al. 2000) clearly show that it belongs in the Littorinimorpha although placement in the Cerithioidea still persist (e.g. Bandel & Kowalke, 1997; Kowalke, 1998; Bandel & Kiel, 2000). Lydeard et al. (2002) found Campanile and Serpulorbis formed a clade that was sister to the Cerithioidea but outgroup sampling in this analysis was limited. [details]

LSID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:23139

Taxonomic
Edit history

Date	action	by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z	created	db_admin
2009-04-24 18:07:06Z	changed	Gofas, Serge
2012-11-19 22:35:23Z	changed	Bieler, Rudiger

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Citation: Bieler, R.; Gofas, S. (2013). Vermetidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23139 on 2013-06-19

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