Vermicularia knorrii, commonly known as the Florida worm snail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod in the family Turritellidae.[1]V. knorrii has been concluded to be the junior synonym to Vermicularia lumbricalis.[1][2] The shell of Florida worm snail is light brown or tan in color with an apex that is white. It is found living in reefs on the coasts of the southern states of the United States to the top of South America. V. knorri use their ciliated appendages to trap plankton and sperm.
^ abWoRMS. "Vermicularia knorrii (Deshayes, 1843)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
^Anderson, Brendan Matthew (2018). The evolution of unusual shell morpohologies in fossil and living Turritellidae (Gastropoda) (PhD thesis). Cornell University. doi:10.7298/X4S75DK9. hdl:1813/59723.
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