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Aegopis verticillus

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ288089 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aegopis verticillus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Zonitidae, the true glass snails. It was first described in 1822 by Lamarck. It is defined as Least Concern on the ICUN Red List.

Distribution

This species occurs in Europe, including Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Italy and the Alps, and has been introduced to Germany.

Editorial summary

“Aegopis verticillus” enters the record as species of mollusc. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Aegopis, verticillus and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1822—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Aegopis, verticillus and species.
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Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q288089. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1822.

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This entry incorporates text from “Aegopis verticillus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.