Gastrocopta sharae

Gastrocopta sharae is a species of very small air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Vertiginidae.

Gastrocopta sharae
The shell of Gastrocopta sharae, seen under a light microscope (left) and under a scanning electron microscope (right)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

clade Orthurethra
Superfamily:
Pupilloidea
Family:
Vertiginidae
Subfamily:
Gastrocoptinae
Genus:
Gastrocopta
Species:
G. sharae
Binomial name
Gastrocopta sharae
Salvador, Cavallari & Simone, 2017

Etymology

The specific name sharae is a reference to Shar, a fictional deity in the Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms campaign setting.[1]

Distribution

This species is known only from its type locality, Gruta Revolucionários, a cave located in Goiás state, Brazil.

References
  1. Salvador, Rodrigo B.; Cavallari, Daniel C.; Simone, Luiz R.L. (15 February 2017). "Taxonomical study on a sample of land and freshwater snails from caves in central Brazil, with description of a new species". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 93 (1): 135–141. doi:10.3897/zse.93.10995.


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