Species: Vertigo ovata
Ovate Vertigo
Species
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Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Pupillidae
Genus
Vertigo
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Classification
Other Global Common Names
Ovate Vertigo Snail
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Invertebrates - Mollusks - Terrestrial Snails
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Mollusca - Gastropoda - Stylommatophora - Pupillidae - Vertigo
Ecology and Life History
Habitat Type Description
Terrestrial
Migration
false - false - false
Non-migrant
false
Locally Migrant
false
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
2002-10-08
Global Status Last Changed
2002-10-08
Other Status
NT - Near threatened
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - It ranges over most of northern and eastern North America from the Aleutian Islands to Labrador southward to Florida and eastern Texas; southwestern limit of its range is formed by Nebraska, Colorado, and Arizona (Bequaert and Miller, 1973; Nekola et al., 2010). In the West it occurs on Kodiak Island, Alaska, and Washington and south to Arizona, southern Baja California, Mexico, adn the West Indies; and is introduced to New Zealand (Roth and Sadeghian, 2003).
Global Range Code
H
Global Range Description
>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)