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Gastrocopta
Sign in to saveGastrocopta is a genus of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Gastrocoptidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyGastrocoptidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2,402
- With media
- 48
- Family
- Gastrocoptidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, PRI, UTEP, SDNHM, UF, UCM
- Recorded in
- Dr Congo, United States, Senegal, Mauritius, Thailand
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Image
- Gastrocopta armifera shell.jpg
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- Commons category
- Gastrocopta
- taxon name
- Gastrocopta
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Gastrocopta
- taxon author citation
- Wollaston, 1878
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Encyclopedic overview
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Gastrocopta is a genus of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Gastrocoptidae.
Gastrocopta is the type genus of the subfamily Gastrocoptinae. The height of the shell is about 2 mm.
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