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:
  • † Gastrocopta abyssifluminis Roth, 1999
  • † Gastrocopta acuminata
  • † Gastrocopta akokala Pierce in Pierce & Constenius, 2001 Gastrocopta allyni Roth & Christensen, 1984Gastrocopta armifera Gastrocopta ashmuni - sluice snaggletoothGastrocopta avanica Gastrocopta bannertonensis Gastrocopta barbadensis Gastrocopta boninensis Pilsbry, 1916
  • † Gastrocopta borysthaenica Prysjazhnjuk, 2015
  • † Gastrocopta bugensis Prysjazhnjuk in Gozhik & Prysjazhnjuk, 1978
  • † Gastrocopta chichijimana Pilsbry, 1916Gastrocopta cochisensis
  • † Gastrocopta conica Pierce in Pierce & Rasmussen, 1992 Gastrocopta contracta
  • † Gastrocopta cordillerae Roth, 1986 Gastrocopta corticaria Gastrocopta cristata Pilsbry & VanattaGastrocopta dalliana Gastrocopta damarica
  • † Gastrocopta dehmi Schlickum & Strauch, 1979
  • † Gastrocopta devjatkini Prysjazhnjuk in Prysjazhnjuk et al., 1975
  • † Gastrocopta didymodus Gastrocopta duplicata
  • † Gastrocopta edlaueri Gastrocopta ejecta Gastrocopta eudeli Pilsbry, 1916Gastrocopta ferdinandi
  • † Gastrocopta fissidens Gastrocopta geminidens Gastrocopta gularis F. G. Thompson & López, 1996
  • Gastrocopta hedleyi Pilsbry, 1917Gastrocopta iheringi
  • † Gastrocopta itaboraiensis Salvador & Simone, 2013
  • † Gastrocopta kazachica Steklov in Steklov & Tsytovich, 1967
  • † Gastrocopta kedeica Prysiazhniuk, 2017 †
  • † Gastrocopta kintlana Pierce in Pierce & Constenius, 2001 †Gastrocopta klunzingeri
  • † Gastrocopta krestnikovi Steklov, 1967
  • † Gastrocopta lamellidens Gastrocopta larapinta
  • † Gastrocopta lartetii
  • † Gastrocopta leonardi Pierce in Pierce & Rasmussen, 1992 Gastrocopta macdonnelli Gastrocopta margaretae
  • † Gastrocopta mezzalirai Gastrocopta microscopica
  • † Gastrocopta minuscula Pierce in Pierce & Rasmussen, 1992
  • † Gastrocopta mongolica Prysjazhnjuk in Prysjazhnjuk et al., 1975
  • † Gastrocopta montana Roth, 1986
  • † Gastrocopta moravica Gastrocopta mussoni Pilsbry, 1917
  • † Gastrocopta nouletiana
  • † Gastrocopta obesa Pierce in Pierce & Rasmussen, 1992 Gastrocopta oblonga
  • † Gastrocopta ogasawarana Pilsbry, 1916
  • † Gastrocopta oviforma Pierce in Pierce & Rasmussen, 1992
  • † Gastrocopta patagonica Miquel & P. E. Rodriguez, 2016 Gastrocopta pediculus Gastrocopta pellucida Gastrocopta pentodon Gastrocopta pilsbryana - Montane snaggletooth
  • † Gastrota polocopnica Harzhauser & Neubauer, 2018Gastrocopta procera Gastrocopta prototypus
  • † Gastrocopta pseudotheeli Steklov, 1966
  • † Gastrocopta quadriplicata Gastrocopta recondita
  • † Gastrocopta rhenana Geissert, 1983 Gastrocopta riograndensis Gastrocopta rixfordi Hanna, 1923Gastrocopta rupicolaGastrocopta rupicola marginalba
  • † Gastrocopta russelli Pierce in Pierce & Rasmussen, 1992
  • † Gastrocopta sacraecoronae Krolopp, 1858Gastrocopta sagittaria Roth, 1986 †
  • †Gastrocopta sandbergeri Stworzewicz & Prisyazhnyuk, 2006
  • † Gastrocopta serotina Gastrocopta servilis
  • † Gastrocopta shandgolica Prysjazhnjuk in Prysjazhnjuk et al., 1975 Gastrocopta sharae Salvador, Cavallari & Simone, 2017
  • †Gastrocopta skiphica Prysjazhnjuk in Gozhik & Prysjazhnjuk, 1978Gastrocopta solitaria
  • † Gastrocopta steklovi Prisyazhnyuk, 1973 Gastrocopta strangei Gastrocopta stupefaciens Pokryszko, 1996
  • † Gastrocopta suevica Gastrocopta tappaniana
  • † Gastrocopta tavennerensis Pierce in Pierce & Rasmussen, 1992 Gastrocopta theeli Gastrocopta thomasseti Pilsbry, 1929
  • † Gastrocopta turgida
  • † Gastrocopta tuvaense Steklov, 1967
  • † Gastrocopta valentini Stworzewicz, 2007
subgenus Vertigopsis Sterki, 1892
;Species brought into synonymy:Gastrocopta soneri Chamberlin & Jones, 1929: synonym of ''Gastrocopta pilsbryana''