Gastrocopta contracta
| Gastrocopta contracta | |
|---|---|
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| Apertural view of a shell of Gastrocopta contracta | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
| Family: | Vertiginidae |
| Subfamily: | Gastrocoptinae |
| Genus: | Gastrocopta |
| Species: | G. contracta |
| Binomial name | |
| Gastrocopta contracta (Say, 1822) | |
| Synonyms | |
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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
- ↑ 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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