Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Pupilloidea Subfamily Vertigininae Scientific name Vertigo lilljeborgi Rank Species | Class Gastropoda Family Vertiginidae Tribe Vertiginini Phylum Mollusca | |
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Similar Vertigo, Vertigo alpestris, Vertigo substriata, Vertigo ronnebyensis, Vertigo pusilla | ||
Vertigo lilljeborgi is a species of minute land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.
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Distribution
The type locality for this species is on the southern shore of Tresjön Lake, near Ronneby, Blekinge province, in Sweden.
This species is known to occur in a number of countries and islands in Northern Europe including:
Shell description
The shell is ventricose, ovate, strongly glossy, very finely striate, chestnut horn-color. The shell has 5 whorls, rather rapidly increasing, convex, the last but little higher than the penult, double as high as the next earlier whorl, a little ascending in front. Suture is slightly oblique.
Aperture is quite piriform, or obliquely cordate, with 1 parietal tooth (sometimes with another punctiform one), 2 columellar teeth, the lower very small, often wanting; 2 short, high, equal, immersed teeth in the palate, bounded by a reddish-brown streak in front. Peristome is weak, expanded, the margins delicately united; outer margin not impressed, scarcely produced angularly forward.
The width of the adult shell varies from 1.25 to 1.5 mm, the height from 2-2.25 mm.
Vertigo lilljeborgi, compared with Vertigo moulinsiana, is much smaller, more glossy, its whorls are more tumid, and its thinner lip lacks the broad, almost colorless margin of the latter.