Vertigo extima
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| Vertigo extima | |
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| Range map of Vertigo extima | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Vertiginidae |
| Subfamily: | Vertigininae |
| Genus: | Vertigo |
| Species: | V. extima |
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| Vertigo extima (Westerlund, 1877)[1] | |
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Vertigo extima is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.[2] Its habitat is a denizen of various willow-dominated wetlands in a tundra and northern taiga matrix.[3]
The length of the shell attains 3 mm, its diameter 1¾ mm (millimeters). This species mode of locomotion is mucus meditated gliding.[4]
