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

Vertigo modesta
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Vertiginidae
Subfamily: Vertigininae
Genus: Vertigo
Species:
V. modesta
Binomial name
Vertigo modesta
(Say, 1824)
Synonyms
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  • Isthmia corpulenta E. S. Morse, 1865 ·
  • Pupa borealis Morelet, 1858 (junior synonym)
  • Pupa corpulenta var. parietalis Ancey, 1887 ·
  • Pupa decora A. Gould, 1847 (junior synonym)
  • Pupa hoppii Møller, 1842 (original name)
  • Pupa modesta Say, 1824 (original combination)
  • Vertigo (Boreovertigo) hoppii (Møller, 1842) ·
  • Vertigo (Boreovertigo) modesta (Say, 1824) alternate representation
  • Vertigo (Glacivertigo) modesta (Say, 1824) ( ubgeneric classification)
  • Vertigo (Vertigo) modesta (Say, 1824) ·
  • Vertigo castanea Sterki, 1892 (nomen nudum)
  • Vertigo hoppii (Møller, 1842) (junior synonym)
  • Vertigo modesta insculpta Pilsbry, 1919 ·
  • Vertigo modesta microphasma S. S. Berry, 1919
Subspecies
  • Vertigo modesta castanea Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1900
  • Vertigo modesta concinnula Cockerell, 1897
  • Vertigo modesta modesta (Say, 1824)

Description

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(Described as Isthmia corpulenta) The shell is rimate perforate, elongate ovate, finely striated, polished, translucent, dark olive brown. The apex is round and obtuse. The shell contains four whorls, convex, tumid, wider at the base. The aperture is large, subcircular, with four obtuse teeth, one on the parietal margin, one on the columellar margin, and two on the outer lip. The peristome is slightly thickened and reflected.[2]

Distribution

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

 
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References

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  1. ^ WMolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vertigo modesta (Say, 1824). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1050669 on 2023-02-10
  2. ^ Morse, E. S. (1865). Descriptions of new species of Pupadae. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. 8: 207-212
  3. ^ Kathryn E. Perez. (last edited September 12, 2006) Land Snail List for Texas Archived April 30, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. accessed 25 June 2009.
  4. ^ "Vertigo modesta". Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. Archived from the original on December 29, 2016. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
  • Gould, A. A. (1847). [Description] of a new species of Physa, together with two other new species of North American shells. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 2: 262–263.
  • Ancey, C. F. (1887). Description of North American shells. The Conchologists' Exchange. 2(6): 79–80.
  • Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017.
  • Sysoev, A. V. & Schileyko, A. A. (2009). Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries. Sofia/Moskva (Pensoft). 312 pp., 142 plates.
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