Vertiginidae

Vertiginidae Temporal range: Upper Paleocene-recent[1]
Vertigo moulinsiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora clade Orthurethra
Superfamily:	Pupilloidea
Family:	Vertiginidae Fitzinger, 1833
Diversity
93-95 species[1]

Vertiginidae is a family of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.^[2]

Distribution

Distribution of Vertiginidae include Northern Hemisphere: North America (60 species), Eurasia (30 species), North and central Africa (3-5 species).^[1] That is altogether 93-95 species.

Ecology

Vertiginidae inhabits from forests to semi-open and open habitats of various 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 have been 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
• 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^[2]

tribe Truncatellinini

• Columella Westerlund, 1878 - column^[2]
• Truncatellina Lowe, 1852 - type genus of the tribe Truncatellinini^[2]

subfamily Gastrocoptinae

• Aulacospira Möllendorff, 1890^[2]
• Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878 - type genus of subfamily Gastrocoptinae^[2]
• Hypselostoma Benson, 1856^[2]

subfamily Nesopupinae

• Cylindrovertilla O. Boettger, 1881^[2]
• Nesopupa Pilsbry, 1900 - type genus of subfamily Nesopupinae^[2]
• Staurodon Lowe, 1852^{[citation needed]}

subfamily ?

• Bothriopupa Pilsbry, 1898^[3]
  • Bothriopupa tenuidens (C. B. Adams, 1845)^[3]
• Campolaemus Pilsbry, 1892^{[citation needed]}
• Sterkia Pilsbry, 1898 in Pupillidae^[4] / or in Vertiginidae^{[3][clarification needed]}

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference ^[1].

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Family summary for Vertiginidae. AnimalBase, last modified 03-09-2006, accessed 23 June 2009.
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} "Mollusca". Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
4. ^ Sterkia clementina. NatureServe Explorer, accessed 1 August 2010.

External links

• Vertiginidae at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website.
• The Vertiginidae of Poland