The Vermetidae Family includes 136 species comprising 11 genus (Thylacodes (39 species), Dendropoma (29), Petaloconchus (28), ...)

Phylum      : Mollusca
 Class       : Gastropoda 
  Subclass    : Caenogastropoda 
   Order       : Littorinimorpha 
    Superfamily : Vermetoidea 
     Family      : Vermetidae

Common name : worm snails or worm shells

Aspect : coiled, very irregular tube-shaped shell

Feeding : plankton, caught with sticky filaments that retract into the shell. operculum sometimes

Environment : cemented on a hard surface or grouped in colonies

Vermetus triquetrus Bivona-Bernardi, 1832

Total collection for Vermetidae : 1 species (3 shells in total)

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