WoRMS name details
Vermetus indicus Daudin, 1800
212108 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212108)
unaccepted (original combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Daudin, François Marie. (1800). Receuil de mémoires et de notes sur des espèces inédites ou peu connues de Mollusques, de vers et de zoophytes. xviii & 19-50. Fuchs & Treuttel et Wurtz. Paris., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/96153
page(s): 44 [details]
page(s): 44 [details]
Note Indian Ocean
Type locality Indian Ocean [details]
Status Treated as polychaete by Bieler & Petit (2011: 41).
Status Treated as polychaete by Bieler & Petit (2011: 41). [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Vermetus indicus Daudin, 1800. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212108 on 2025-05-23
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Nomenclature
original description
Daudin, François Marie. (1800). Receuil de mémoires et de notes sur des espèces inédites ou peu connues de Mollusques, de vers et de zoophytes. xviii & 19-50. Fuchs & Treuttel et Wurtz. Paris., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/96153
page(s): 44 [details]
basis of record Michel, C. (1988). Marine molluscs of Mauritius. <em>Editions de l'Ocean Indien. Stanley, Rose Hill. Mauritius.</em> [details]
page(s): 44 [details]
basis of record Michel, C. (1988). Marine molluscs of Mauritius. <em>Editions de l'Ocean Indien. Stanley, Rose Hill. Mauritius.</em> [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. [details] Available for editors 
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additional source
Bieler, R. & Petit, R. E. (2011). Catalogue of Recent and fossil “worm-snail” taxa of the families Vermetidae, Siliquariidae, and Turritellidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2948: 1-103., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt02948p103.pdf
page(s): 41 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 41 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment This taxon has been attributed to the genus Pomatoceros by Hartman; however, the diagnosis is poor but might be referrable to Spirobranchus tetraceros. The figure in Michel is of a vermetid. [details]Status Treated as polychaete by Bieler & Petit (2011: 41). [details]
Unreviewed
Type locality Indian Ocean [details]
