Vertiginidae
Temporal range: Upper Paleocene-recent[1]
A live individual of Vertigo moulinsiana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Vertiginidae
Fitzinger, 1833
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 - 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

Subfamily Nesopupinae
  • Bothriopupa Pilsbry, 1898[3]
  • Costigo O. Boettger, 1891
  • Cylindrovertilla O. Boettger, 1881[2]
  • 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[2]
  • 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.[1]

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Family summary for Vertiginidae. AnimalBase, last modified 03-09-2006, accessed 23 June 2009.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 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. 1 2 "Mollusca" Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
  • 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
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