Vertigo paradoxa

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.

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

This species is found in Canada and the United States.

References
  1. Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. Vertigo paradoxa. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived 27 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  2. ITIS, accessed 23 June 2009.


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