[2] A 2009 phylogenetic analysis of genus Vertigo revealed that many of its species should be included in the circumscription of V.

[6] This greatly expanded the range of V. arthuri, which is now considered to have a disjunct distribution spanning from Alaska to Newfoundland to New Mexico.

[2] V. arthuri now includes many snails that were formerly considered to be rare local endemics of the American Midwest.

It consumes leaf litter and organic layers on rock surfaces.

[2] (Described as Vertigo gouldii hubrichti) The shell is subcylindric, larger than Vertigo nylanderi Sterki, 1909 with a similar long and deep impression over the palatal folds.