Vermetus

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Vermetus \Ver*me"tus\, n. [NL., from L. vermis worm.] (Zool.)
     Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to
     {Vermetus} and allied genera, of the family {Vermetidae}.
     Their shells are regularly spiral when young, but later in
     life the whorls become separate, and the shell is often
     irregularly bent and contorted like a worm tube.


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