Vertigo extima

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Vertigo extima
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Vertiginidae
Genus: Vertigo
Species:
V. extima
Binomial name
Vertigo extima
Synonyms
  • Pupa (Vertigo) arctica var. extima Westerlund, 1877

Vertigo extima is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.

Distribution[]

Vertigo extima is usually found in northern Scandinavia, northern Siberia and in western Alaska.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Westerlund C. A. 1877. Sibiriens land- och sötvatten-mollusker. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar (Ny Följd) 14 (12): 1-111, Taf. [1]. Stockholm.
  2. ^ "Species summary for Vertigo extima". AnimalBase, last modified 26 October 2013, accessed 18 October 2015.


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