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Ammonitella yatesii

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Tight coin
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Family:
Megomphicidae
Genus:
Ammonitella
Species:
A. yatesii
Binomial name
Ammonitella yatesii
J.G. Cooper, 1869

The tight coin, scientific name Ammonitella yatesii, is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Megomphicidae. This species is endemic to the United States.

The shell in this species is very tightly coiled, hence the common name.

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