Gastrocopta is a genus of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Gastrocoptidae.MolluscaBase (2018). Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818270 on 2018-10-14

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 (Brazil and Venezuela).

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 (Klein, 1846) † Gastrocopta akokala Pierce in Pierce & Constenius, 2001 Gastrocopta allyni Roth & Christensen, 1984 Gastrocopta armifera (Say, 1821) Gastrocopta ashmuni (Chamberlin & Berry, 1930) - sluice snaggletooth Gastrocopta avanica (Benson, 1863) Gastrocopta bannertonensis (Gabriel, 1930) Gastrocopta barbadensis (Pfeiffer, 1853)"Mollusca" . Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.Richards H. G. & Hummelinck P. W. (1940). "Land & Freshwater Mollusks from Margarita Island, Venezuela". Notulae Naturae 62 1-16. at Google Books. Gastrocopta boninensis Pilsbry, 1916 † Gastrocopta borysthaenica Prysjazhnjuk, 2015 † Gastrocopta bugensis Prysjazhnjuk in Gozhik & Prysjazhnjuk, 1978 † Gastrocopta chichijimana Pilsbry, 1916 Gastrocopta cochisensis (Pilsbry & Ferriss, 1910) † Gastrocopta conica Pierce in Pierce & Rasmussen, 1992 Gastrocopta contracta (Say, 1822) † Gastrocopta cordillerae Roth, 1986 Gastrocopta corticaria (Say, 1816) Gastrocopta cristata Pilsbry & Vanatta Gastrocopta dalliana (Sterki, 1898) Gastrocopta damarica (Ancey, 1888) † Gastrocopta dehmi Schlickum & Strauch, 1979 † Gastrocopta devjatkini Prysjazhnjuk in Prysjazhnjuk et al., 1975 † Gastrocopta didymodus (Sandberger, 1858) Gastrocopta duplicata (Preston, 1911) † Gastrocopta edlaueri (Wenz, 1921) Gastrocopta ejecta (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1912) Gastrocopta eudeli Pilsbry, 1916 Gastrocopta ferdinandi (Andreae, 1902) † Gastrocopta fissidens (Sandberger, 1858) Gastrocopta geminidens (Pilsbry) Gastrocopta gularis F. G. Thompson & López, 1996 Gastrocopta hedleyi Pilsbry, 1917 Gastrocopta iheringi (Suter, 1900) Salgado N. C. & Coelho A. C. S. (2003). "Moluscos terrestres do Brasil (Gastrópodes operculados ou não, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae e Limacidae)". Rev. Biol. Trop. 51(Suppl. 3): 149-189. (with English abstract), PDF .Veitenheimer-mendes I. L. & de Oliveira C. R. P. (2012). "Gastrocopta iheringi (Suter, 1900) (Gastropoda, Vertiginidae): redescrição do material-tipo. [Gastrocopta iheringi (Suter, 1900) (Gastropoda, Vertiginidae): redescription of type material].". Revista Biotemas 25(1): 181-185. . † 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 (Jickeli, 1873) † Gastrocopta krestnikovi Steklov, 1967 † Gastrocopta lamellidens (F. Sandberger, 1858) Gastrocopta larapinta (Tate, 1896) † Gastrocopta lartetii (Dupuy, 1850) † Gastrocopta leonardi Pierce in Pierce & Rasmussen, 1992 Gastrocopta macdonnelli (Brazier, 1875) Gastrocopta margaretae (Cox, 1868) † Gastrocopta mezzalirai (Ferreira & Coelho, 1971) Gastrocopta microscopica (E. von Martens, 1898) † Gastrocopta minuscula Pierce in Pierce & Rasmussen, 1992 † Gastrocopta mongolica Prysjazhnjuk in Prysjazhnjuk et al., 1975 † Gastrocopta montana Roth, 1986 † Gastrocopta moravica (Petrbok, 1959) Gastrocopta mussoni Pilsbry, 1917 † Gastrocopta nouletiana (Dupuy, 1850) † Gastrocopta obesa Pierce in Pierce & Rasmussen, 1992 Gastrocopta oblonga (Pfeiffer, 1852) † Gastrocopta ogasawarana Pilsbry, 1916 † Gastrocopta oviforma Pierce in Pierce & Rasmussen, 1992 † Gastrocopta patagonica Miquel & P. E. Rodriguez, 2016 Gastrocopta pediculus (Shuttleworth, 1852) Gastrocopta pellucida (Pfeiffer, 1840) Gastrocopta pentodon (Say, 1821) Gastrocopta pilsbryana (Pilsbry, 1948) - Montane snaggletooth † Gastrota polocopnica Harzhauser & Neubauer, 2018 Gastrocopta procera (Gould) Gastrocopta prototypus (Pilsbry, 1899) † Gastrocopta pseudotheeli Steklov, 1966 † Gastrocopta quadriplicata (A. Braun in Walchner, 1851) Gastrocopta recondita (Tapparone Canefri, 1883) † Gastrocopta rhenana Geissert, 1983 Gastrocopta riograndensis (Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1900) Gastrocopta rixfordi Hanna, 1923 Gastrocopta rupicola Gastrocopta rupicola marginalba (Pfeiffer, 1840) † Gastrocopta russelli Pierce in Pierce & Rasmussen, 1992 † Gastrocopta sacraecoronae Krolopp, 1858 Kovanda J. (2005). "Nová lokalita vzácného plŽže Gastrocopta theeli (West.) od Pátku u Loun. [A new locality of a rare Gastropod Gastrocopta theeli (West.) from Pátek near Louny]". Zprávy o geologických výzkumech v roce 2004: 59-61. PDF, table 6. Gastrocopta sagittaria Roth, 1986 † †Gastrocopta sandbergeri Stworzewicz & Prisyazhnyuk, 2006 † Gastrocopta serotina (Ložek, 1964) Gastrocopta servilis (Gould, 1843) † Gastrocopta shandgolica Prysjazhnjuk in Prysjazhnjuk et al., 1975 Gastrocopta sharae Salvador, Cavallari & Simone, 2017 †Gastrocopta skiphica Prysjazhnjuk in Gozhik & Prysjazhnjuk, 1978 Gastrocopta solitaria (Smith, 1890) † Gastrocopta steklovi Prisyazhnyuk, 1973 Gastrocopta strangei (Pfeiffer, 1854) Gastrocopta stupefaciens Pokryszko, 1996 † Gastrocopta suevica (O. Boettger, 1889) Gastrocopta tappaniana (C. B. Adams, 1841) † Gastrocopta tavennerensis Pierce in Pierce & Rasmussen, 1992 Gastrocopta theeli (Westerlund, 1877) Gastrocopta thomasseti Pilsbry, 1929 † Gastrocopta turgida (Reuss in Reuss & Meyer, 1849) † Gastrocopta tuvaense Steklov, 1967 † Gastrocopta valentini Stworzewicz, 2007

subgenus Vertigopsis Sterki, 1892Sterki V. (1892). "Preliminary list of North American Pupidae (north of Mexico)". The Nautilus 6: 2-8. page 4. † Gastrocopta moravica (Petrbok, 1959) † Gastrocopta n. sp. from the Viernheim research boreholeWedel J. (2008). "Pleistocene molluscs from research boreholes in the Heidelberg Basin". E&G – Quaternary Science Journal 57(3-4): 382-402. . Species brought into synonymy Gastrocopta soneri Chamberlin & Jones, 1929: synonym of Gastrocopta pilsbryana (Sterki, 1890)

References

Pierce, H.G.; Rasmussen, D.L. (1992). The nonmarine mollusks of the Late Oligocene-Early Miocene Cabbage Patch fauna of western Montana. I. Geologic setting and the family Pupillidae (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora). Journal of Paleontology. 66(1): 39-5 Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

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