Gastrocopta contracta
Appearance
Gastrocopta contracta | |
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Apertural view of a shell of Gastrocopta contracta | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Gastrocoptidae |
Genus: | Gastrocopta |
Species: | G. contracta
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Binomial name | |
Gastrocopta contracta (Say, 1822)
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Synonyms | |
Bifidaria contracta |
Gastrocopta contracta, common name the bottleneck snaggletooth, is a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Gastrocoptidae.
Distribution
This species occurs in eastern North America from Mexico to the United States, 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.