Vertigo geyeri
Encyclopedia
Vertigo geyeri is a species of small land snail
from the family
Vertiginidae
. It lives in marshes.
The specific name geyeri is in honor of German zoologist David Geyer
(1855-1932).
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
from the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Vertiginidae
Vertiginidae
Vertiginidae is a family of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.- Distribution :...
. It lives in marshes.
The specific name geyeri is in honor of German zoologist David Geyer
David Geyer
David Geyer was German zoologist, malacologist and paleontologist.- Bibliography :Works by David Geyer were published in German language:...
(1855-1932).
Distribution and conservation status
- IUCN red listIUCN Red ListThe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species , founded in 1963, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species. The International Union for Conservation of Nature is the world's main authority on the conservation status of species...
- conservation dependentConservation DependentConservation Dependent was an IUCN category assigned to species or lower taxa which were dependent on conservation efforts to prevent the taxon becoming threatened with extinction... - It is mentioned in Annex II of the European Union'sEuropean UnionThe European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...
Habitats Directive. - British Isles (Ireland and United Kingdom) - listed in List of endangered species in the British Isles, Great Britain (endangered in Great Britain), Ireland
- continental Europe:
- Austria
- Czech Republic - critically endangered (CR). It's Conservation status in Czech Republic in 2004-2006 is bad (U2) in report for European commissionEuropean CommissionThe European Commission is the executive body of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Union's treaties and the general day-to-day running of the Union....
in accordance with Habitats Directive. - Denmark, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden and Switzerland.
External links
- photo of Vertigo geyeri
- http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~polmal/smp/v103.htm
