Vertigo ronnebyensis is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.[3]
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| Apertural view of a shell of Vertigo ronnebyensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Vertiginidae |
| Subfamily: | Vertigininae |
| Genus: | Vertigo |
| Species: | V. ronnebyensis
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| Vertigo ronnebyensis (Westerlund, 1871)[2]
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Shell description edit
The shell is deeply perforate, long-ovate, regularly finely striate, very glossy and reddish-brown in color. The shell has 5½ convex whorls. The last whorl is about equal to the penult, which is a third higher than the preceding whorl, which is double the height of the next earlier. Last whorl has a transverse callus of the same color near the aperture. Suture is very oblique, ascending to the aperture.[4]
Aperture is quite obliquely piriform, excised by the very oblique parietal wall. Aperture has 4 teeth: 1 parietal lamella, 1 conic tooth at the lower end of the sharply emerging, dark-colored columella; 2 short, widely separated, deeply immersed palatal folds. Margins are delicately united, the outer margin is weakly arcuate, nearly straight, the columellar margin is broadly reflected.[4]
The width of the adult shell is 1.15-1.35 mm, the height is 2.0-2.35 mm.[5]
Distribution edit
This species occurs in:[1]
- Fennoscandia: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland
- Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
- Northwestern Russia: Kaliningrad
- Central Europe: Germany, Czech Republic, Poland
Habitat edit
This species lives in forests, often in association with Vaccinium and preferably on acidic soils.[1]
References edit
This article incorporates public domain text from reference.[4]
- ^ a b c Neubert, E. (2011). "Vertigo ronnebyensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T157202A5054080. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T157202A5054080.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ Westerlund C. A. 1871. Exposé critique des mollusques de terre et d'eau douce de la Suède et de la Norvége. pp. [1-2], 1-200. Upsal. (Berling).
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vertigo ronnebyensis (Westerlund, 1871). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1050672 on 2023-02-11
- ^ a b c Pilsbry H. A. & Cooke C. M. 1918–1920. Manual of Conchology. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 25. Pupillidae (Gastrocoptinae, Vertigininae). Philadelphia. pages 192–193.
- ^ Species summary for Vertigo ronnebyensis. AnimalBase, accessed 23 June 2009.
- Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017
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