Gastrocopta contracta

Gastrocopta contracta
Apertural view of a shell of Gastrocopta contracta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
clade Orthurethra

Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Vertiginidae
Subfamily: Gastrocoptinae
Genus: Gastrocopta
Species: G. contracta
Binomial name
Gastrocopta contracta
(Say, 1822)
Synonyms

Bifidaria contracta

Gastrocopta contracta, common name the bottleneck snaggletooth, is a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.

Distribution

This species occurs in eastern North America from Mexico to the USA, east of the Rocky Mountains, and in Canada in Manitoba (at Carberry) Canada.[1]

References

  1. Dall W. H.. 1905. Alaska, Volume XIII, Land and Fresh Water Mollusks. New York, Doubleday, Page & Complany, pages 1-157, page 27.


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