Vertiginidae

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title: "Vertiginidae" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["vertiginidae"] description: "Family of gastropods" topic_path: "general/vertiginidae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertiginidae" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Family of gastropods ::

| fossil_range = Upper Paleocene-recent | image = Vertigo moulinsiana 2.jpg | image_caption = A live individual of Vertigo moulinsiana | taxon = Vertiginidae | authority = Fitzinger, 1833 | diversity_link = | diversity_ref = | diversity = 93–95 species

Vertiginidae, common name the whorl snails, is a family of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.

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

Taxonomy

The following three subfamilies were recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):

• 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

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

; Subfamily Nesopupinae

• Bothriopupa Pilsbry, 1898
  • Bothriopupa tenuidens (C. B. Adams, 1845)
• Costigo O. Boettger, 1891
• Cylindrovertilla O. Boettger, 1881
• 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
• 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

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.

• 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

References

1. {{Bouchet 2005
2. [http://www.ecosis.cu/cenbio/biodiversidadcuba/fauna/mollusca.htm "Mollusca"] {{webarchive. link. (July 18, 2011 . Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.)
3. [http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/family?id=26 ''Family summary for Vertiginidae'']. [[AnimalBase]], last modified 03-09-2006, accessed 23 June 2009.

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