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| Ogasawara Whorl Snail (Gastrocopta ogasawarana) |
| syn. - |
| distribution: Japan: Chichijima; Ototojima (?) / Ogasawara Islands |
| local name: - |
| size: ca. 0,18 cm
(shell heigth) extinction date: (?) |
| The reasons for the extinction of this snail species are the same as for the closely related Chichijima Whorl Snail (Gastrocopta chichijimana (Pilsbry)). |
 left:Ogasawara Whorl Snail (Gastrocopta ogasawarana) Depiction from: 'G. W. Tryon; H. A. Pilsbry: Manual of Conchology. Second series: Pulmonata, Vol. 24, 1918-1920' http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org |
| References: - Takashi Ohbayashi; Isamu Okochi; Hiroki Sato; Tsuyoshi Ono: Food habit of Platydemus manokwari De Beauchamp, 1962 (Tricladida: Terricola: Rhynchodemidae), known as a predatory flatworm of land snails in the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, Japan. Entomology and Zoology 40: 609-614. 2005 |