Classification
Scientific Name: Vertigo
bollesiana
Common Name:
Delicate Vertigo
Etymology: Vertigo comes from the
Latin word vertō which means whirling or spinning. I'm not
positive on how this species received its common name but it is
described as being more transparent and delicate in color than
its closest relative
Vertigo gouldi and maybe that's how the name stuck.
Classification | Description |
Domain: Eukarya | Membrane bound organelles a nucleus |
Kingdom: Animalia | Multicellular and heterotrophic organisms lacking a cell wall |
Phylum: Mollusca | Soft bodied coelomates, many have calcium carbonate shell, body divided into three main regions the mantle, visceral mass, and muscular foot |
Class: Gastropoda | Greek origin meaning stomach and foot, originally it was believed that animals in this group moved along on their bellies. Animals in this class have a muscular foot on their ventral side used for locomotion (Morse, E. 1868) |
Order: Stylommatophora | Pulmonate gastropods with two pairs of invaginable tentacles, the anterior tentacles bears the eyes at their tip |
Family: Pupillidae | Organisms in this family have tiny lamellae on the opening of the shell |
Genus: Vertigo | No oral tentacles, has four to six whorls, oblong shell, four to six lamellae that protrude in into the aperture |
Species: V. bollesiana | Shell is minutely perforate, delicately striated, subtranslucent, extremely small crest close behind the lip and rather large oblique depression over the palatal folds. Peristome is subreflected and thickened with five teeth (Pilsbry, H. 1948). |