Vermetus

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Vermetus is a genus of sea snails in the worm snail family Vermetidae. These marine animals are very old, with fossils dating from the Jurassic period to today (about 165 million years ago to the present).

Classification:
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Mollusca
- Class: Gastropoda
- Subclass: Caenogastropoda
- Order: Littorinimorpha
- Family: Vermetidae
- Genus: Vermetus (Daudin, 1800)

Type species: Vermetus adansonii (Daudin, 1800)
Synonym: Thylaeodus (Mörch, 1860)

Fossil record shows Vermetus from the Jurassic to the present. For example, Vermetus sp. has been found in the Nicosia Formation, Pliocene, Cyprus.