Vertiginidae

Vertiginidae, common name the whorl snails, is a family of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.[2]

Vertiginidae
Temporal range: Upper Paleocene-recent[1]
A live individual of Vertigo moulinsiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
clade Orthurethra
Superfamily:
Pupilloidea
Family:
Vertiginidae

Fitzinger, 1833
Diversity[1]
93–95 species

Distribution

The distribution of the Vertiginidae is in the Northern Hemisphere: North America (60 species), Eurasia (30 species), North and central Africa (3-5 species).[1] That gives a total of approximately 93-95 species.

Ecology

Snails in this family inhabit habitats ranging from forests to semi-open and open habitats with various different kinds of substrate cover, vegetation and humidity.[1] They feed on microflora - bacteria and fungi - growing on dead and living plants.[1]

Taxonomy

The following three subfamilies were recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):[2]

  • Subfamily Vertigininae Fitzinger, 1833
    • Tribe Vertiginini Fitzinger, 1833
    • Tribe Truncatellinini Steenberg, 1925 - synonyms: Truncatellininae; Columellinae Schileyko, 1998
  • Subfamily Gastrocoptinae Pilsbry, 1918 - synonyms: Hypselostomatinae Zilch, 1959; Aulacospirinae Zilch, 1959
  • Subfamily Nesopupinae Steenberg, 1925 - synonym: Cylindrovertillidae Iredale, 1940

Genera

Genera in the family Vertiginidae include:

Subfamily Vertigininae

Tribe Vertiginini

Tribe Truncatellinini

Subfamily Gastrocoptinae

Subfamily Nesopupinae

Subfamily ?

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[1]

  1. Family summary for Vertiginidae. AnimalBase, last modified 03-09-2006, accessed 23 June 2009.
  2. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  3. Barrientos, Z. (2003). "Lista de especies de moluscos terrestres (Archaeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda, Archaeopulmonata, Stylommatophora, Soleolifera) informadas para Costa Rica". revistas.ucr.ac.cr. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
  4. "Mollusca" Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
  5. Sterkia clementina. NatureServe Explorer, accessed 1 August 2010.
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