Biology:Gastrocopta contracta
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Short description: Species of gastropod
| Gastrocopta contracta | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Gastrocopta contracta | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora clade Orthurethra |
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| Subfamily: | Gastrocoptinae
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| Species: | G. contracta
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| Gastrocopta contracta (Say, 1822)
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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
- ↑ Dall W. H. 1905. Alaska, Volume XIII, Land and Fresh Water Mollusks. New York, Doubleday, Page & Complany, pages 1-157, page 27.
Wikidata ☰ Q3075479 entry
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