''Vertigo gouldii'',
common name
In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrast ...
the variable vertigo, is a
species of minute air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
, a
terrestrial pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the family
Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vertigo gouldii (A. Binney, 1843). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1065106 on 2023-02-08]
;Subspecies:
* ''Vertigo gouldii arizonensis''
Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1900
* ''Vertigo gouldii coloradoensis''
(Cockerell, 1891)
* ''Vertigo gouldii inserta''
Pilsbry, 1919
Distribution
This species occurs in:
*
Texas,
[Kathryn E. Perez. (last edited September 12, 2006]
''Land Snail List for Texas''
. accessed 25 June 2009. USA.
References
* Binney, A. (1843). Critical notice of the species found in the United States, which, at present, are described as constituting the genus Pupa. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 1: 104–106.
* Thompson, F. G. (2011). An annotated checklist and bibliography of the land and freshwater snails of México and Central America. Florida Museum of Natural History Bulletin. 50(1): 1-299
* Rosenberg, G. & Muratov, I. V. (2006). Status report on the terrestrial Mollusca of Jamaica. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 155: 117–161; Erratum: 156: 401 (2007).
External links
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1889). Preliminary remarks on the molluscan fauna of Colorado. Journal of Conchology. 6(1): 60-65.Pilsbry, H. A. & Vanatta, E. G. (1900). A partial revision of the Pupae of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 52: 582-611, plates 22-23.Sterki, V. (1890). On some northern Pupidae, with descriptions of new species. The Nautilus. 3(11): 123-126
gouldii
Gastropods described in 1843
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