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Desmoulin's Whorl Snail

Vertigo moulinsiana

Classification

Desmoulin's whorl snail (Vertigo moulinsiana) is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails. This species was named in honor of the early-19th-century French naturalist Charles des Moulins. Habitat Desmoulin's whorl snail inhabits calcareous wetlands, where there are tall sedges, saw-sedge (Cladium mariscus), reed-grass (Glyceria maxima) or the reed Phragmites australis.

Distribution

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Switzerland · 630France · 500Netherlands · 125Germany · 35Belgium · 19Spain · 14United Kingdom · 11Luxembourg · 1