Vertigo ovata

Vertigo ovata
	Drawing of the aperture of a shell of Vertigo ovata
Conservation status
	; Near Threatened (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superfamily:	Pupilloidea
Family:	Vertiginidae
Subfamily:	Vertigininae
Tribe:	Vertiginini
Genus:	Vertigo
Subgenus:	Vertigo
Species:	V. ovata
Binomial name
	Vertigo ovata; Say, 1822

Vertigo ovata, common name the ovate vertigo, is a species of minute, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.[2]

Distribution

This species is endemic to the United States, occurring in:

Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. Vertigo ovata. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 11 December 2008.
Marshall, B. (2014). Vertigo ovata (Say, 1822). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=819972 on 2014-11-06
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.

Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp 196–219 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.

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