Vertiginidae | |
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A live individual of Vertigo moulinsiana | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
Family: | Vertiginidae Fitzinger, 1833 |
Diversity[1] | |
93–95 species |
Vertiginidae, common name the whorl snails, is a family of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.[2]