basis of record
Fauchald, K. (2007). World Register of Polychaeta. , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details]
additional source
Bieler, R. & Petit, R. E. (2011). Catalogue of Recent and fossil “worm-snail” taxa of the families Vermetidae, Siliquariidae, and Turritellidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2948: 1-103., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt02948p103.pdf
page(s): 53 [details]
source of synonymy
Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment Vermetus porosus was attributed to Placostegus by Hartman, but is more probably a species of Spirobranchus [details]
Status Treated as a polychaete by Bieler & Petit (2011: 53). [details]From other sources
Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]
Type locality Indian Ocean [details]