Vertigo paradoxa

Vertigo paradoxa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Vertiginidae
Subfamily: Vertigininae
Tribe: Vertiginini
Genus: Vertigo
Subgenus: Vertigo
Species: V. paradoxa
Binomial name
Vertigo paradoxa
Nylander[1]

or Sterki[2] in Pilsbry, 1900

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

This species is found in Canada and the United States.

References

  1. 1 2 Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. Vertigo paradoxa. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  2. ITIS, accessed 23 June 2009.
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