Vertiginidae
| Vertiginidae | |
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| A live individual of Vertigo moulinsiana | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Family: | Vertiginidae Fitzinger, 1833
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| Diversity[1] | |
| 93–95 species | |
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]
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
- Vertigo O. F. Müller, 1773 - the type genus of the family Vertiginidae[2]
Tribe Truncatellinini
- Columella Westerlund, 1878 - column snails[2]
- Truncatellina Lowe, 1852 - the type genus of the tribe Truncatellinini[2]
Subfamily Gastrocoptinae
- Aulacospira Möllendorff, 1890[2]
- Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878 - the type genus of the subfamily Gastrocoptinae[2]
- Hypselostoma Benson, 1856[2]
- Pupisoma Stoliczka, 1873 [3]
Subfamily Nesopupinae
- Cylindrovertilla O. Boettger, 1881[2]
- Nesopupa Pilsbry, 1900 - the type genus of the subfamily Nesopupinae[2]
- Staurodon Lowe, 1852[citation needed]
Subfamily ?
- Bothriopupa Pilsbry, 1898[4]
- Bothriopupa tenuidens (C. B. Adams, 1845)[4]
- Campolaemus Pilsbry, 1892[citation needed]
- Sterkia Pilsbry, 1898 in Pupillidae[5] / or in Vertiginidae[4][clarification needed]
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[1]
- ^ a b c d e f Family summary for Vertiginidae. AnimalBase, last modified 03-09-2006, accessed 23 June 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ^ 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.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c "Mollusca" Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
- ^ Sterkia clementina. NatureServe Explorer, accessed 1 August 2010.
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