Vertiginidae

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93–95 species

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

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). 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. They feed on microflora - bacteria and fungi - growing on dead and living plants.

Taxonomy

The following three subfamilies were recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):{{Bouchet 2005}}

Subfamily Vertigininae Fitzinger, 1833
Tribe Vertiginini Fitzinger, 1833
Tribe Truncatellinini Steenberg, 1925 - synonyms: Truncatellininae; Columellinae Schileyko, 1998 - raised in 2016 to family level Truncatellinidae
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

; Subfamily Nesopupinae

Bothriopupa Pilsbry, 1898[http://www.ecosis.cu/cenbio/biodiversidadcuba/fauna/mollusca.htm "Mollusca"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718163216/http://www.ecosis.cu/cenbio/biodiversidadcuba/fauna/mollusca.htm |date=July 18, 2011 }}. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
Bothriopupa tenuidens (C. B. Adams, 1845)
Costigo O. Boettger, 1891
Cylindrovertilla O. Boettger, 1881
Glandicula F. Sandberger, 1875 †
Helenopupa Pilsbry & C. M. Cooke, 1920
Indopupa Pilsbry & C. M. Cooke, 1920
Insulipupa Pilsbry & C. M. Cooke, 1920
Lyropupa Pilsbry, 1900
Minacilla H. Nordsieck, 2014 †
Negulopsis H. Nordsieck, 2014 †
Nesopupa Pilsbry, 1900 - the type genus of the subfamily Nesopupinae
Nesopuparia Pilsbry, 1926
Nesopupilla Pilsbry & C. M. Cooke, 1920
Nesoropupa Gargominy, 2008
Paracraticula Oppenheim, 1890 †
Pronesopupa Iredale, 1913
Trigonopupa H. Nordsieck, 2014 †
Staurodon Lowe, 1852: synonym of Vertigo O. F. Müller, 1773

; Subfamily ?

Acmopupa O. Boettger, 1889 †
Propupa Stworzewicz & Pokryszko, 2006 †
Pseudelix O. Boettger, 1889 †
Tetoripupa Isaji, 2010 †
Sterkia Pilsbry, 1898: synonym of Vertigo O. F. Müller, 1773

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/family?id=26 Family summary for Vertiginidae]. AnimalBase, last modified 03-09-2006, accessed 23 June 2009.

Schileyko, A. A. (1998). Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 2. Gastrocoptidae, Hypselostomatidae, Vertiginidae, Truncatellinidae, Pachnodidae, Enidae, Sagdidae. Ruthenica. Supplement 2: 129–261. Moskva

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20080907064043/http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~polmal/smp/index.htm The Vertiginidae of Poland]
[https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10601570 Fitzinger, L.J. (1833). Systematisches Verzeichniß der im Erzherzogthume Oesterreich vorkommenden Weichthiere, als Prodrom einer Fauna derselben. Beiträge zur Landeskunde Oesterreichs's unter der Enns, 3: 88-122. Wien]