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]

Vertigo gouldii
Drawing of the aperture of a shell of Vertigo gouldii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Vertiginidae
Subfamily: Vertigininae
Genus: Vertigo
Species:
V. gouldii
Binomial name
Vertigo gouldii
(A. Binney, 1843)
Synonyms
  • Pupa coloradensis Cockerell, 1889 (nomen nudum)
  • Pupa gouldii A. Binney, 1843 (original combination)
  • Vertigo (Vertigo) gouldi (A. Binney, 1843) · alternate representation
  • Vertigo coloradensis var. arizonensis Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1900
  • Vertigo columbiana var. utahensis Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1900 ·
Subspecies
  • Vertigo gouldii arizonensis Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1900
  • Vertigo gouldii coloradoensis (Cockerell, 1891)
  • Vertigo gouldii inserta Pilsbry, 1919

Distribution

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This species occurs in:

References

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  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 Archived April 30, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. accessed 25 June 2009.
  • 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).
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