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Vermicularia

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Description

Vermicularia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turritellidae.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermicularia, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2300693	https://www.gbif.org/species/2300693
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	10661	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=10661

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Turritellidae : Vermicularia

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Sorbeoconcha : Turritellidae : Vermicularia

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
order	Sorbeoconcha	Ponder and Lindberg 1997
superfamily	Cerithioidea	(Férussac 1819)
family	Turritellidae	Lovén 1847
subfamily	Vermiculariinae
genus	Vermicularia	Lamarck 1799

Scientific Name

Vermicularia Lamarck, 1799

Name Published In

Lamarck, J. B. P. A. de M. de. 1799. Prodrome d’une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères génériques, et l’établissement d’un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. Mémoires de la Société d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris 1: 63-91.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Vermicularia	genus	belongs to Gastropoda	stated without evidence	Philippi, 1836
Vermicularia	genus	belongs to Vermetidae	stated with evidence	Gardner, 1948
Vermicularia	genus	belongs to Turritellidae	stated with evidence	Ladd, 1972
Vermicularia	genus	belongs to Vermicularidae	stated with evidence	Ward and Blackwelder, 1987
Vermicularia	genus	belongs to Vermiculariinae	stated with evidence	Pacaud and Le Renard, 1995
Vermicularia	genus	belongs to Turritellidae	stated with evidence	Todd, 2001
Vermicularia	genus	belongs to Neotaenioglossa	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Vermicularia	genus	belongs to Vermiculariinae	stated with evidence	Bouchet et al., 2005

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

5 (33%)

First Recorded Appearance

247 - 242 Ma
Triassic

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Turritellidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Turritellidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermicularia

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Vermicularia (Anguillospira) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		2	41.3 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Vermicularia (Provermicularia) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		5	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Vermicularia (Vermicularia) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		5	47.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Serpulorbis porrectus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vermetus trilineata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vermicularia bathyalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vermicularia calyculata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vermicularia costalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vermicularia fargoi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vermicularia flava species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vermicularia frisbeyae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vermicularia hindsii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vermicularia indica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vermicularia knorrii species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Vermicularia lumbricalis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Vermicularia maoriana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vermicularia murrayi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vermicularia nodosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vermicularia pellucida species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vermicularia porrecta ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	47.8 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Vermicularia radicula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vermicularia recta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vermicularia regularis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vermicularia spirata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		34	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Vermicularia tenuis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vermicularia tortuosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vermicularia trilineata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		6	5.33 Ma Miocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Vermicularia weberi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vermicularia woodringi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		36	11.6 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Vermiculus Lamarck, 1799	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Turritellidae : *Vermiculus*
Vermiculus pellucidus planorboides Mörch, 1861	GBIF	variety	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Turritellidae : *Vermiculus pellucidus planorboides*
Vermiculus Lister, 1688	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Turritellidae : *Vermiculus*
Vermiculus Mörch, 1859	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Turritellidae : *Vermiculus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1799	Vermicularia Lamarck
1836	Vermiculus Philippi p. 244
1925	Vermicularia Mansfield p. 50
1948	Vermicularia Gardner p. 202
1972	Vermicularia Ladd p. 17
1972	Vermicularia Perrilliat p. 40
1987	Vermicularia Ward and Blackwelder p. 131

Year	Name and Author
1995	Vermicularia Pacaud and Le Renard p. 157
1996	Vermicularia Allmon p. 11
2001	Vermicularia Todd
2002	Vermicularia Sepkoski, Jr.
2005	Vermicularia Bouchet et al. pp. 182, 249
2010	Vermicularia Landau and Marques da Silva p. 23

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Mansfield W. C. (1925) Miocene gastropods and scaphopods from Trinidad, British West Indies, Proceedings of the United States National Museum 66 22, 9116-9125

Gardner J. A. (1948) Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina: Part 2. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 199 B, 179-310

Ladd H. S. (1972) Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Turritellidae through Strombidae), United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 532, 1-79

Perrilliat M. C. (1972) Monografia de los Moluscos del Mioceno Medio de Santa Rosa, Verazruz, Mexico, Paleontologia Mexicana 32, 1-130

Ward L. W., Blackwelder B.W. (1987) Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 61, 113-283

Pacaud J.-M., Le Renard J. (1995) Révision des Mollusques Paléogénes du Bassin de Paris. IV - Liste systématique actualisée, Cossmanniana 3 4, 155-187

Allmon W. D. (1996) Systematics and Evolution of Cenozoic American Turitellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) I, Paleontographica Americana 59

Todd J. A. (2001) Systematic list of gastropods in the Panama Paleontology Project collections

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P, et al (2005) A nomenclator and classification of gastropod family-group names, Malacologia 47 1-2, 1-368

Landau B., Marques da Silva C. (2010) Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy, Palaeontos 19, 1-221

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). - via World Register of Marine Species

Lamarck, J.B.M. (1799). Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères géneriques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 1: 63-91. - via World Register of Marine Species

Aphia2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Brusca & Brusca, 1990 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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