Vertigo extima

Vertigo extima
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
Subfamily: Vertigininae
Tribe: Vertiginini
Genus: Vertigo
Subgenus: Vertigo
Species: V. extima
Binomial name
Vertigo extima
(Westerlund, 1877)[1]
Synonyms

Pupa (Vertigo) arctica var. extima Westerlund, 1877

Vertigo extima is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.

Distribution

Vertigo extima lives in northern Scandinavia, northern Siberia and in western Alaska.[2]

References

  1. Westerlund C. A. 1877. Sibiriens land- och sötvatten-mollusker. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar (Ny Följd) 14 (12): 1-111, Taf. [1]. Stockholm.
  2. "Species summary for Vertigo extima". AnimalBase, last modified 26 October, 2013, accessed 18 October 2015.


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