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Vertigo bermudensis Pilsbry

Bermuda Whorl Snail (Vertigo bermudensis)

The Bermuda Whorl Snail was described in 1919, this species is known only from a few specimens which all have been collected in the early 1900s from the vicinitiy of Church Cave near Tucker’s Town, a small town in the St. George’s Parish on Bermuda.

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Photo from: ‘Rüdiger Bieler; John Slapcinsky: A case study for the development of an island fauna: recent terrestrial mollusks of Bermuda. Nemouria 44: 1-99. 2000’

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edited: 13.06.2020