Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Superorder Eupulmonata > Order Stylommatophora > Suborder Helicina > Infraorder Pupilloidei > Superfamily Pupilloidea

Vertiginidae Fitzinger, 1833

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Nesopupinae
Truncatellininae
Vertigininae Fitzinger, 1833

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: vertigos; whorl snails; whorl snails and chrysalis snails sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

German: Windelschnecken sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Swedish: grynsnäckor

Literature

original description	Fitzinger, L.J. (1833). Systematisches Verzeichniß der im Erzherzogthume Oesterreich vorkommenden Weichthiere, als Prodrom einer Fauna derselben. Beiträge zur Landeskunde Oesterreichs's unter der Enns, 3: 88-122. Wien.
basis of record	Schileyko, A. A. (1998). Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 2. Gastrocoptidae, Hypselostomatidae, Vertiginidae, Truncatellinidae, Pachnodidae, Enidae, Sagdidae. Ruthenica. Supplement 2: 129-261. Moskva [November].
additional source	Espinosa, J. & Ortea, J. (1999). Moluscos terrestres del archipiélago cubano. Avicennia. suppl. 2: 1-137.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Vertiginidae Fitzinger, 1833. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:426418

Ruud A. Bank. Vertiginidae Fitzinger, 1833. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/93580f94-1c75-4808-872e-f21a6c8566bc