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Cross Whorl Snail

Vertigo hoppii

Classification

Vertigo modesta, common name the cross vertigo, is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails. Subspecies Vertigo modesta castanea Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1900 Vertigo modesta concinnula Cockerell, 1897 Vertigo modesta modesta (Say, 1824) Description (Described as Isthmia corpulenta) The shell is rimate perforate, elongate ovate, finely striated, polished, translucent, dark olive brown. The apex is round and obtuse.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Switzerland · 39