Gastrocopta 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.
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Apertural view of a shell of Gastrocopta contracta | |
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
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Species: | G. contracta |
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Gastrocopta contracta (Say, 1822) | |
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Bifidaria contracta |
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.
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