| Vertigo parcedentata | |
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| Vertigo parcedentata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
| Family: | Vertiginidae |
| Subfamily: | Vertigininae |
| Tribe: | Vertiginini |
| Genus: | Vertigo |
| Species: | V. parcedentata |
| Binomial name | |
| Vertigo parcedentata (Braun, 1847)[1] |
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| Synonyms | |
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Pupa parcedentata Braun, 1847 |
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Vertigo parcedentata is a species of small land snail from the family Vertiginidae.
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Recent distribution include Norway.[2]
Fossil distribution include also other parts of Europe from the Netherlands to Ukraine[3]: Pleistocene and alluvium of the Rhine valley in Germany,[4] Czech Republic,[3] Slovakia,[3] etc.
The shell is small, narrowly ovate. The shell has a narrow umbilical crevice and blunt summit. The shell has from 4½ to 5 convex whorls separated by a deeply impressed suture. The last whorl is forming half of the total length. First whorl is entirely smooth, the rest having rather oblique striae, of which there are several finer between two stronger striae.[4]
The aperture is semiovate, obliquely truncate above, with weakly reflected margins which are connected by a very thin callus. The right margin is weakly arched forward. It has usually one or two teeth or is wholly toothless, but it can have up to 4 teeth.[4]
Dimensions of the shell are varry acoording to the authors:
This article incorporates public domain text from reference [4].