Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
Synonym: Aletes Carpenter 1857
Parent taxon: Vermetidae according to B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva 2010
See also Abbott 1974, Dockery 1977, Harris and Palmer 1947, Ladd 1972, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Sepkoski 2002, Todd 2001, Ward and Blackwelder 1987, Weisbord 1962, Wilson 1993 and Woodring 1959
Sister taxa: Burtinella, Dendropoma, Dendropomatinae, Elliptovermetus, Lementina, Lemintina, Macrophragma, Vermetinae, Vermetus
Subtaxa: Serpulorbis arenaria Serpulorbis cancellatus Serpulorbis chavani Serpulorbis conicus Serpulorbis decussatus Serpulorbis granifera Serpulorbis imbricatus Serpulorbis llajasensis Serpulorbis lornensis Serpulorbis major Serpulorbis papulosus Serpulorbis rudis Serpulorbis squamulosus
Type: Serpula arenaria
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Bermuda (7), China (1), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), French Polynesia (3), Italy (2), Jamaica (1), Japan (3), Mexico (4), Panama (1), the Seychelles (1), United States (5: California, Florida, North Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (4), the Dominican Republic (8), Ecuador (2), Fiji (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (2), Japan (1), Panama (10), Trinidad and Tobago (6), United States (14: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (13)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2)
• Miocene of Australia (2), Brazil (2), Chile (4), Colombia (5), the Dominican Republic (27), France (1), Grenada (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), the Marshall Islands (2), Panama (8), Trinidad and Tobago (4), United States (12: Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (2: Florida)
• Oligocene of United States (6: Mississippi)
• Eocene of Antarctica (5), France (3), Germany (1), New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (33: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas)
• Paleocene of France (1), United States (12: Alabama, Maryland, Texas, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of United States (2: Tennessee)
Total: 237 collections including 270 occurrences
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