Gastrocopta chichijimana

Gastrocopta chichijimana
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. chichijimana
Binomial name
Gastrocopta chichijimana
Pilsbry, 1916

Gastrocopta chichijimana was a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.

This snail was endemic to Japan; it is now extinct.

References

  1. Tomiyama, K. 1996. Gastrocopta chichijimana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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