Gastrocopta contracta

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Gastrocopta contracta
Gastrocopta contracta shell.jpg
Apertural view of a shell of Gastrocopta contracta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
Superfamily:
Family:
Vertiginidae
Subfamily:
Gastrocoptinae
Genus:
Species:
G. contracta
Binomial name
Gastrocopta contracta
(Say, 1822)
Synonyms

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 United States, east of the Rocky Mountains, and in Canada in Manitoba (at Carberry) Canada.[1]

References[]

  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".
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