Vertigo genesii

Vertigo genesii, common name the round-mouthed whorl snail, is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.

[3] The shell is very small, ovate, obtuse, indistinctly, spaced striate, glossy purplish brown.

The shell has 4½ whorls, that are rather convex, high, rapidly increasing, joined by a somewhat impressed suture, the penult large, almost ventricose.

Peristome is scarcely expanded, thickened liplike, bordered with bluish black, the margins are connected by a very weak callus, the right margin is arched at the insertion.

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A fossil shell of Vertigo genesii .
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