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
Apertural view of a shell of Gastrocopta contracta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Gastrocoptidae
Genus: Gastrocopta
Species:
G. contracta
Binomial name
Gastrocopta contracta
(Say, 1822)
Synonyms

Bifidaria contracta

Distribution

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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

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  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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  1. ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0".