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Vertigo arctica is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.
Distribution
This species occurs in:
- Poland - critically endangered
Shell description
Shell is dextral, rimate, ovate, thin, smoothish, somewhat glossy, pellucid, brownish-tawny. The shell has 5 to 5 ½ whorls, convex, the last nearly two-fifths the altitude, rounded at base, anteriorly having a somewhat swollen crest.
Aperture is slightly oblique, semiovate or piriform, obstructed by 3 teeth: in the middle of the parietal wall, on the columella, and a smaller one in the palate (frequently wanting). Peristome is spreading, slightly labiate, the margins joined by a callus, the right margin very strongly curved above, columellar margin is somewhat dilated, spreading.
The width of the adult shell is about 2.5 mm, the height about 1.5 mm.