Kingdom Animalia Family Vertiginidae Tribe Vertiginini Scientific name Vertigo pygmaea Higher classification Vertigo | Superfamily Pupilloidea Subfamily Vertigininae Genus Vertigo Phylum Mollusca Rank Species | |
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Similar Vertigo antivertigo, Vertigo, Vertigo substriata, Vertigo pusilla, Columella edentula | ||
Vertigo pygmaea, common name the "crested vertigo", is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.
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Shell description
Shell extremely small, oval-cylindric and obtuse at the summit, of a more or less deep brown, smooth and little shining. Spire consist of 5 progressively increasing whorls.
Aperture is scarcely longer than wide, and nearly round, furnished with 4 teeth, of which the superior is acute, two deeply placed inferior, and finally one on the columellar margin. A fifth tooth is often found in the base of the aperture. The lateral margin is slightly angular in the middle. Peristome is reflected below. Umbilical crevice quite pronounced.
This snail lives under hedges.
Distribution
This species occurs in Europe in the following countries and islands:
And in America, in: