Gastrocopta contracta
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| Gastrocopta contracta | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Gastrocopta contracta | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Gastrocoptidae |
| Genus: | Gastrocopta |
| 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 mollusc in the family Gastrocoptidae.
Distribution
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ 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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