Vertiginidae
| Vertiginidae Temporal range: Upper Paleocene-recent |
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| A live individual of Vertigo moulinsiana | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
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clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
| Family: |
Vertiginidae Fitzinger, 1833 |
| Diversity | |
| 93–95 species | |
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
clade Orthurethra
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.
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.
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.
The following three subfamilies were recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):
Genera in the family Vertiginidae include:
Subfamily Vertigininae
Tribe Vertiginini
Tribe Truncatellinini
Subfamily Gastrocoptinae
Subfamily Nesopupinae
Subfamily ?
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