Vertiginidae, common name the whorl snails, is a family of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.

[2] The distribution of the Vertiginidae is in the Northern Hemisphere: North America (60 species), Eurasia (30 species), North and central Africa (3-5 species).

Snails in this family inhabit habitats ranging from forests to semi-open and open habitats with various different kinds of substrate cover, vegetation and humidity.

[1] They feed on microflora - bacteria and fungi - growing on dead and living plants.

[1] The following three subfamilies were recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):[2] Genera in the family Vertiginidae include: Tribe Vertiginini This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.