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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