Vertigo gouldii explained

Vertigo gouldii, common name the variable vertigo, is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.^[1]

Subspecies:

• Vertigo gouldii arizonensis Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1900
• Vertigo gouldii coloradoensis (Cockerell, 1891)
• Vertigo gouldii inserta Pilsbry, 1919

Distribution

This species occurs in:

• Texas,^[2] USA.

References

• Binney, A. (1843). Critical notice of the species found in the United States, which, at present, are described as constituting the genus Pupa. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 1: 104–106.
• Thompson, F. G. (2011). An annotated checklist and bibliography of the land and freshwater snails of México and Central America. Florida Museum of Natural History Bulletin. 50(1): 1-299
• Rosenberg, G. & Muratov, I. V. (2006). Status report on the terrestrial Mollusca of Jamaica. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 155: 117–161; Erratum: 156: 401 (2007).

External links

• Cockerell, T. D. A. (1889). Preliminary remarks on the molluscan fauna of Colorado. Journal of Conchology. 6(1): 60-65.
• Pilsbry, H. A. & Vanatta, E. G. (1900). A partial revision of the Pupae of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 52: 582-611, plates 22-23.
• Sterki, V. (1890). On some northern Pupidae, with descriptions of new species. The Nautilus. 3(11): 123-126

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vertigo gouldii (A. Binney, 1843). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1065106 on 2023-02-08
2. Kathryn E. Perez. (last edited September 12, 2006) Land Snail List for Texas . accessed 25 June 2009.