Kingdom Animalia Family Vertiginidae Genus Gastrocopta Phylum Mollusca Rank Species | Superfamily Pupilloidea Subfamily Gastrocoptinae Scientific name Gastrocopta contracta Higher classification Gastrocopta | |
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Similar Gastrocopta, Gastrocopta pentodon, Punctum minutissimum, Vertigo milium, Helicodiscus parallelus | ||
Gastrocopta contracta bottleneck snaggletooth snail developing ovum
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.
Contents
Glyphyalinia wheatleyi snail preying on gastrocopta contracta snail
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.
References
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