Vertigo dedecora

Vertigo dedecora is a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Vertiginidae.[1]

Ptychalaea dedecora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Order:
Stylommatophora
Family:
Vertiginidae
Genus:
Vertigo
Species:
V. dedecora
Binomial name
Vertigo dedecora
{Pilsbry, 1902}
Synonyms

Nesopupa tamagonari Pilsbry, Hirase, 1904

This species is vulnerable.

Was erroneously placed in genus Ptychalaea.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Japan.

References
  • Tomiyama, K. (1996). "Ptychalaea dedecora". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T18823A8645105. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T18823A8645105.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  1. Nekola J. C., Chiba S., Coles B.F., Drost C.A., Proschwitz T.V., Horsák M. 2018. A phylogenetic overview of the genus Vertigo O.F. Müller, 1773 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupillidae: Vertigininae) // Malacologia. Vol.62. No.1. P.21–161.


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