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