Vertigo ventricosa

Vertigo ventricosa
Drawing: the aperture of a shell of Vertigo gouldii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Vertiginidae
Subfamily: Vertigininae
Tribe: Vertiginini
Genus: Vertigo
Subgenus: Vertigo
Species: V. ventricosa
Binomial name
Vertigo ventricosa
(E. S. Morse, 1865)

Vertigo ventricosa, common name the five-tooth vertigo, is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.

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