Vertigo pygmaea, common name the "crested vertigo", is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Common Whorl-snail being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Vertigo pusilla
- Vertigo antivertigo
- Columella edentula
- Lauria sempronii
- Pupilla muscorum
- Lauria cylindracea
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Stylommatophora
- Family
- Vertiginidae
- Genus
- Vertigo
- Species
- Vertigo pygmaea
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