Gastrocoptidae


Gastrocoptidae is a family of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Pupilloidea.

Distribution

The distribution of the Gastrocoptidae is nearly worldwide, although family is extinct in Europe since Pleistocene, except one species in Northern Caucasus. In fossil record from Paleocene.

Taxonomy

For some time was considered as a subfamily in Vertiginidae, some species of these two families are very similar by the shell's characters.
Genera in the family Gastrocoptidae include:
  • † Albinulopsis Kadolsky, 2020
  • † Balticopta Balashov & Perkovsky, 2020 - fossil from Eocene Baltic amber
  • † Ptychalaea Boettger, 1889 fossil from Miocene and Eocene of Europe
Subfamily Gastrocoptinae Pilsbry, 1918
  • Cavipupa Pilsbry, 1934 - endemic to Philippines
  • Chaenaxis Pilsbry & Ferris, 1906 - North America
  • Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878 - the type genus of the family, distributed nearly worldwide, over 100 species, in fossil record from Paleocene, very numerous and speciose in the Miocene deposits of Europe
  • Gibbulina Beck, 1837
  • Pumilicopta Solem, 1988 - Australia
  • Ulpia Hylton Scott, 1955

    Synonyms

  • Bifidaria Sterki, 1891: synonym of Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878
  • Falsopupa Germain, 1918: synonym of Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878
  • Leucochilus O. Boettger, 1881: synonym of Gastrocopta Sterki, 1892 represented as Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878
  • Aulacospirinae Zilch, 1959 : synonym of Hypselostomatinae Zilch, 1959 accepted as Hypselostomatidae Zilch, 1959
  • Australbinula Pilsbry, 1916 : synonym of Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878
  • Gyrodaria Iredale, 1940: synonym of Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878
  • Hypselostomatinae Zilch, 1959: synonym of Hypselostomatidae Zilch, 1959

    Literature

  • Pilsbry H.A. 1916–1918. Manual of Conchology. Second Series: Pulmonata, 24. Pupillidae. Philadelphia: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 380 p.
  • Pilsbry H.A., Cooke C.M. 1918–1920. Manual of Conchology. Second Series: Pulmonata, 25. Pupillidae. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia. 401 pp.
  • Schileyko A.A. 1998. Treatise on Recent Terrestrial Pulmonate Molluscs. Part 2: Gastrocoptidae, Hypselostomatidae, Vertiginidae, Truncatellinidae, Pachnodidae, Enidae, Sagdidae // Ruthenica. Suppl.2. P.129–261.
  • Páll-Gergely B., 2023. Anauchen kozari n. sp., a new Hypselostomatid species from Laos. Acta Phytopathologica et Entomologica Hungarica: 1-9

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