Family of gastropods
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.[2]
Distribution
The distribution of the Vertiginidae is in the Northern Hemisphere: North America (60 species), Eurasia (30 species), North and central Africa (3-5 species).[1] That gives a total of approximately 93-95 species.
Ecology
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.[1] They feed on microflora - bacteria and fungi - growing on dead and living plants.[1]
Taxonomy
The following three subfamilies were recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):[2]
- Subfamily Vertigininae Fitzinger, 1833
- Tribe Vertiginini Fitzinger, 1833
- Tribe Truncatellinini Steenberg, 1925 - synonyms: Truncatellininae; Columellinae Schileyko, 1998 - raised in 2016 to family level Truncatellinidae
- Subfamily Gastrocoptinae Pilsbry, 1918 - synonyms: Hypselostomatinae Zilch, 1959; Aulacospirinae Zilch, 1959
- Subfamily Nesopupinae Steenberg, 1925 - synonym: Cylindrovertillidae Iredale, 1940
Genera
Genera in the family Vertiginidae include:
- Subfamily Vertigininae
Tribe Vertiginini
- Subfamily Nesopupinae
- Bothriopupa Pilsbry, 1898[3]
- Costigo O. Boettger, 1891
- Cylindrovertilla O. Boettger, 1881[2]
- Glandicula F. Sandberger, 1875 †
- Helenopupa Pilsbry & C. M. Cooke, 1920
- Indopupa Pilsbry & C. M. Cooke, 1920
- Insulipupa Pilsbry & C. M. Cooke, 1920
- Lyropupa Pilsbry, 1900
- Minacilla H. Nordsieck, 2014 †
- Negulopsis H. Nordsieck, 2014 †
- Nesopupa Pilsbry, 1900 - the type genus of the subfamily Nesopupinae[2]
- Nesopuparia Pilsbry, 1926
- Nesopupilla Pilsbry & C. M. Cooke, 1920
- Nesoropupa Gargominy, 2008
- Paracraticula Oppenheim, 1890 †
- Pronesopupa Iredale, 1913
- Trigonopupa H. Nordsieck, 2014 †
- Staurodon Lowe, 1852: synonym of Vertigo O. F. Müller, 1773
- Subfamily ?
- Acmopupa O. Boettger, 1889 †
- Propupa Stworzewicz & Pokryszko, 2006 †
- Pseudelix O. Boettger, 1889 †
- Tetoripupa Isaji, 2010 †
- Sterkia Pilsbry, 1898: synonym of Vertigo O. F. Müller, 1773
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[1]
- ^ a b c d e f Family summary for Vertiginidae. AnimalBase, last modified 03-09-2006, accessed 23 June 2009.
- ^ a b c d e Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ^ a b "Mollusca" Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
- Schileyko, A. A. (1998). Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 2. Gastrocoptidae, Hypselostomatidae, Vertiginidae, Truncatellinidae, Pachnodidae, Enidae, Sagdidae. Ruthenica. Supplement 2: 129–261. Moskva
