Vertigo pseudosubstriata Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Vertiginidae |
Subfamily: | Vertigininae |
Genus: | Vertigo |
Species: | V. pseudosubstriata
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Binomial name | |
Vertigo pseudosubstriata Ložek, 1954[2]
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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. [4]
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.[5][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:
The shape of the shell is cylindrical-ovate.[5]
The width of the shell is 1.2 mm; the height of the shell is 2.1-2.2 mm.[5]