Gastrocopta


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.

Distribution

The Recent distribution of Gastrocopta includes North America, eastern Asia, central Asia and South America.
In Europe, the genus Gastrocopta has been extirpated; its fossils there are known mainly from the Neogene, but its fossil range in Europe is from the Oligocene to the Lower Pleistocene.

Species

Species within the genus Gastrocopta include:
subgenus Vertigopsis Sterki, 1892
;Species brought into synonymy: