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Vermetus
Genus of gastropods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vermetus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells.[1]
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Vermetus | |
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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 | |
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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]