WoRMS name details
Vermetus porosus Daudin, 1800
338277 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:338277)
unaccepted (original combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Not documented
Note Indian Ocean
Unreviewed
Type locality Indian Ocean [details]
Status Treated as a polychaete by Bieler & Petit (2011: 53).
Taxonomy Moved to different genus
Status Treated as a polychaete by Bieler & Petit (2011: 53). [details]
Taxonomy Moved to different genus
Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Vermetus porosus Daudin, 1800. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=338277 on 2025-05-24
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Nomenclature
basis of record
Fauchald, K. (2007). World Register of Polychaeta. , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [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): 53 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 53 [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 Vermetus porosus was attributed to Placostegus by Hartman, but is more probably a species of Spirobranchus [details]Status Treated as a polychaete by Bieler & Petit (2011: 53). [details]
Unreviewed
Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]Type locality Indian Ocean [details]
