Vertigo arctica is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Vertigo arctica (Wallenberg, 1858). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1430498 on 2023-02-07
Distribution This species occurs in: Poland - critically endangered
Shell description Shell is dextral, rimate, ovate, thin, smoothish, somewhat glossy, pellucid, brownish-tawny. The shell has 5 to 5 ½ whorls, convex, the last nearly two-fifths the altitude, rounded at base, anteriorly having a somewhat swollen crest.
Aperture is slightly oblique, semiovate or piriform, obstructed by 3 teeth: in the middle of the parietal wall, on the columella, and a smaller one in the palate (frequently wanting). Peristome is spreading, slightly labiate, the margins joined by a callus, the right margin very strongly curved above, columellar margin is somewhat dilated, spreading.
The width of the adult shell is about 2.5 mm, the height about 1.5 mm.
References This article incorporates public domain text from reference.Pilsbry H. A. & Cooke C. M. 1918-1920. Manual of Conchology. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 25. Pupillidae (Gastrocoptinae, Vertigininae). Philadelphia. page 189.
Wallenberg, C. von (1858). Beschreibung einer neuen Pupa. Malakozoologische Blätter, 5: 32
External links
Gredler, V. M. (1890). Eine neue Tiroler Pupa. Nachrichtsblatt der deutschen malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 22: 41-42. Frankfurt am Main.