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Round-mouthed Whorl Snail

Vertigo genesii

Classification

Vertigo genesii, common name the round-mouthed whorl snail, is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails. Like many other land snail species, Vertigo genesii has a high affinity to fen habitats, a type of wetland fed by mineral-rich ground water. Based of fossil records, genesii and other relative snail species were distributed in central Europe during the Later Glacial and Early Holocene period.

Distribution

David Geyer · CC0
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Switzerland · 93Netherlands · 6United Kingdom · 2France · 1