Vertiginidae is a family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 of minute, air-breathing land snail

Land snail

A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...

s, terrestrial

Terrestrial animal

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...

 pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromollusk

Micromollusk

A micromollusk is a descriptive term for a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also reach adult size at very small...

s in the superfamily Pupilloidea

Pupilloidea

The Pupilloidea are a superfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the informal group Orthurethra.-Taxonomy:This superfamily contains the following families:*Family Pupillidae*Family Argnidae*Family Chondrinidae...

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Distribution

Distribution of Vertiginidae include Northern Hemisphere

Northern Hemisphere

The Northern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is north of its equator—the word hemisphere literally means “half sphere”. It is also that half of the celestial sphere north of the celestial equator...

: North America (60 species), Eurasia (30 species), North and central Africa (3-5 species). That is altogether 93-95 species.

Ecology

Vertiginidae inhabits from forests to semi-open and open habitats of various substrate cover, vegetation and humidity.

They feed on microflora - bacteria and fungi - growing on dead and living plants.

Taxonomy

The following three subfamilies have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005)

Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)

The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is currently the most up-to-date overall system for classifying gastropod mollusks...

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• subfamily Vertigininae Fitzinger, 1833
  • tribe Vertiginini Fitzinger, 1833
  • tribe Truncatellinini Steenberg, 1925 - synonyms: Truncatellininae; Columellinae Schileyko, 1998
• 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

• Vertigo O. F. Müller, 1773 - type genus of the family Vertiginidae

tribe Truncatellinini

• Columella
  Columella (genus)
  Columella is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vertiginidae, the vertigo snails.-Species:Species within the genus Columella include:* Columella aspera Waldén, 1966...
  
  Westerlund, 1878 - column
• Truncatellina
  Truncatellina
  Truncatellina is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vertiginidae.- Species :Species in the genus Truncatellina include:* Truncatellina arcyensis* Truncatellina atomus...
  
  Lowe, 1852 - type genus of the tribe Truncatellinini

subfamily Gastrocoptinae

• Aulacospira Möllendorff, 1890
• Gastrocopta
  Gastrocopta
  Gastrocopta is a genus of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Vertiginidae, the vertigo snails.Gastrocopta is the type genus of the subfamily Gastrocoptinae.- Species :...
  
  Wollaston, 1878 - type genus of subfamily Gastrocoptinae
• Hypselostoma
  Hypselostoma
  Hypselostoma is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vertiginidae.- Species :Species within the genus Hypselostoma include:* Hypselostoma megaphonum van Benthem-Jutting, 1950...
  
  Benson, 1856

subfamily Nesopupinae

• Cylindrovertilla
  Cylindrovertilla
  Cylindrovertilla is a genus of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Vertiginidae, the vertigo snails.-Species:Species within the genus Cylindrovertilla include:...
  
  O. Boettger, 1881
• Nesopupa
  Nesopupa
  Nesopupa is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vertiginidae.Nesopupa is the type genus of the subfamily Nesopupinae within Vertiginidae.- Distribution :...
  
  Pilsbry, 1900 - type genus of subfamily Nesopupinae
• Staurodon Lowe, 1852

subfamily ?

• Bothriopupa Pilsbry, 1898
  • Bothriopupa tenuidens (C. B. Adams, 1845)
• Campolaemus
  Campolaemus
  Campolaemus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vertiginidae.-Species:The genus Campolaemus includes the following species:* † Campolaemus perexilis Smith, 1892 - type species...
  
  Pilsbry, 1892

• Sterkia
  Sterkia
  Sterkia is a genus of minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Pupillidae or in Vertiginidae.-Species:Species within the genus Sterkia include:* Sterkia antillensis Pilsbry, 1920...
  
  Pilsbry, 1898 in Pupillidae
  Pupillidae
  Pupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the clade Stylommatophora....
  
  / or in Vertiginidae

External links

• The Vertiginidae of Poland