Vertigo pseudosubstriata

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Vertigo pseudosubstriata
Temporal range: Pleistocene–Recent[1]
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Vertiginidae
Genus: Vertigo
Species:
V. pseudosubstriata
Binomial name
Vertigo pseudosubstriata
, 1954[2]
Synonyms[1]
  • Vertigo laevis Uvalieva, 1967[3]

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

Distribution[]

Vertigo pseudosubstriata was first identified as a Pleistocene fossil in the Weichselian loess of Dolní Věstonice (Moravia, Czech Republic).[1] Further Pleistocene evidence followed in Central Europe.[1]

The first indications of recent occurrences of the species in the Tien Shan were submitted by Matěkin.[4][1] Uvalieva (1967)[3] discovered the species anew in the Southern Altai Mountains and initially described it as Vertigo laevis (synonym).[1] In recent times to date, this species has been found in the Tien Shan, Altai Mountains, Pamir Mountains and Himalayas where it is relatively widespread in their alpine altitudes.[1]

The recent distribution of Vertigo pseudosubstriata includes:

Shell description[]

The shape of the shell is cylindrical-ovate.[4]

The width of the shell is 1.2 mm; the height of the shell is 2.1-2.2 mm.[4]

References[]

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Meng S. & Hoffmann M. H. (2009). "Pupilla loessica Ložek 1954 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupillidae) – “A Living Fossil” in Central Asia?". 58(1): 55–69. doi:10.3285/eg.58.1.03.
  2. ^ (in Czech) Ložek V. (1954). "Noví měkkýši československého pleistocénu (Neue Mollusken aus dem tschechoslowakischen Pleistozän). Vertigo pseudosubstriata sp. n., Pupilla muscorum densegyrata ssp. n. a Pupilla loessica sp. n." Anthropozoikum 3(1953): 327–342, Tab. 1.
  3. ^ a b (in Russian) Uvalieva K. K. (1967). "New species of land snails from South Altai. V: Molljuski i ih rol v formirovanii faun". Trudy zoologicheskowo Instituta, XLII: 313-220.
  4. ^ a b c (in German) Ložek V. (1964). Quartärmollusken der Tschechoslowakei. – Rozpravy Ústředního ústavu geologického, Praha, 31: 374 pp., pages 204-205.
  5. ^ Pokryszko B. M., Auffenberg K., Hlaváč J. Č. & Naggs F. (2009). "Pupilloidea of Pakistan (Gastropoda: Pulmonata): Truncatellininae, Vertigininae, Gastrocoptinae, Pupillinae (In Part)". Annales Zoologici 59(4): 423-458. doi:10.3161/000345409X484847.
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