Vertigo lilljeborgi

Vertigo lilljeborgi is a species of minute land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.

Vertigo lilljeborgi
A damaged shell of Vertigo lilljeborgi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Superfamily:
Pupilloidea
Family:
Vertiginidae
Subfamily:
Vertigininae
Tribe:
Vertiginini
Genus:
Vertigo
Subgenus:
Vertigo
Species:
V. lilljeborgi
Binomial name
Vertigo lilljeborgi
Synonyms

Pupa lilljeborgi Westerlund, 1871

Distribution

The type locality for this species is on the southern shore of Tresjön Lake, near Ronneby, Blekinge province, in Sweden.[2]

This species is known to occur in a number of countries and islands in Northern Europe including:

Shell description

The shell is ventricose, ovate, strongly glossy, very finely striate, chestnut horn-color. The shell has 5 whorls, rather rapidly increasing, convex, the last but little higher than the penult, double as high as the next earlier whorl, a little ascending in front. Suture is slightly oblique.[2]

Aperture is quite piriform, or obliquely cordate, with 1 parietal tooth (sometimes with another punctiform one), 2 columellar teeth, the lower very small, often wanting; 2 short, high, equal, immersed teeth in the palate, bounded by a reddish-brown streak in front. Peristome is weak, expanded, the margins delicately united; outer margin not impressed, scarcely produced angularly forward.[2]

The width of the adult shell varies from 1.25 to 1.5 mm, the height from 2-2.25 mm.[2]

Vertigo lilljeborgi, compared with Vertigo moulinsiana, is much smaller, more glossy, its whorls are more tumid, and its thinner lip lacks the broad, almost colorless margin of the latter.[2]

References

This article incorporates public domain text from reference.[2]

  1. Westerlund C. A. 1871. Exposé critique des mollusques de terre et d'eau douce de la Suède et de la Norvége. pp. [1-2], 1-200. Upsal. (Berling).
  2. Pilsbry H. A. & Cooke C. M. 1918-1920. Manual of Conchology. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 25. Pupillidae (Gastrocoptinae, Vertigininae). Philadelphia. page 167–168.
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