Vermetus renisectus ( Carpenter, 1857 )

Lam, Katherine, Morton, Brian & Leung, K. F., 2008, Shell-bearing Mollusca (Bivalvia and Gastropoda) from submarine caves in Hong Kong, Journal of Natural History 42 (9 - 12), pp. 927-952 : 940-941

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930701862674
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scientific name	Vermetus renisectus ( Carpenter, 1857 )
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Vermetus renisectus ( Carpenter, 1857)

Description

Operculum circular, concave with a spiral, flat lamina of 1.5 whorls and less than the apertural diameter of the shell. Shell attached to substratum by loose, irregular basal whorls and give rise to an off-substrata apertural opening.

Type locality

‘‘in Oceano?Indico’’.

Distribution

Indo Pacific. Attached to current-scoured hard substrata. Eastern Hong Kong ( Hughes 1985).