Vertigo is a genus of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.

The jaw is arched; the ends squarely truncated; the anterior surface striate; the cutting edge with a median projection.

The radula has a central tooth that is almost square, tricuspid, as large as or larger than the lateral teeth, which are similar, narrower, and bi- or tricuspid.

[3] The distribution of the genus Vertigo includes Europe, northern Asia, eastern Asia, Japan, Central and North America, Caribbean and the Bermudas.

[4] Species in the genus Vertigo include: This article incorporates public domain text from reference.