Gastrocopta pentodon

Gastrocopta pentodon
View of the aperture of a shell of Gastrocopta pentodon
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. pentodon
Binomial name
Gastrocopta pentodon
(Say, 1821)
Synonyms

Bifidaria pentodon

Gastrocopta pentodon, common name the comb snaggletooth, is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Vertiginidae, the vertigo snails.

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