Tight coin
| Tight coin | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Family: | Megomphicidae |
| Genus: | Ammonitella |
| Species: | A. yatesii |
| Binomial name | |
| Ammonitella yatesii J.G. Cooper, 1869 | |
The tight coin, scientific name Ammonitella yatesii, is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Megomphicidae. This species is endemic to the United States.
The shell in this species is very tightly coiled, hence the common name.
References
- Roth, B. 1996. Ammonitella yatesii. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
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