Gastrocopta ogasawarana

Gastrocopta ogasawarana
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. ogasawarana
Binomial name
Gastrocopta ogasawarana
Pilsbry, 1916

Gastrocopta ogasawarana was a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails. This small snail was endemic to Japan; it is now extinct.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Tomiyama K. (1996) Gastrocopta ogasawarana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007

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