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:
Subfamily Gastrocoptinae <small>Pilsbry, 1918</small>
- 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 <small>Sterki, 1891</small>: synonym of Gastrocopta <small>Wollaston, 1878</small> (junior subjective synonym)
- Falsopupa <small>Germain, 1918</small>: synonym of Gastrocopta <small>Wollaston, 1878</small> (junior synonym)
- Leucochilus <small>O. Boettger, 1881</small>: synonym of Gastrocopta (Albinula) <small>Sterki, 1892</small> represented as Gastrocopta <small>Wollaston, 1878</small> (Invalid: Leucochilus was originally an unjustified emendation of Leucochila <small>Martens, 1860</small>, but had been used as a separate name until it was placed on the Official Index by Opinion 115, 1931; junior synonym)
- Aulacospirinae <small>Zilch, 195</small>9 : synonym of Hypselostomatinae <small>Zilch, 1959</small> accepted as Hypselostomatidae <small>Zilch, 1959</small> (junior subjective synonym)
- Australbinula <small>Pilsbry, 1916</small> : synonym of Gastrocopta <small>Wollaston, 1878</small> (junior synonym)
- Gyrodaria <small>Iredale, 1940</small>: synonym of Gastrocopta <small>Wollaston, 1878</small>
- Hypselostomatinae <small>Zilch, 1959</small>: synonym of Hypselostomatidae <small>Zilch, 1959</small> (superseded rank)
References
Literature
- Pilsbry H.A. 1916âÂÂ1918. Manual of Conchology. Second Series: Pulmonata, 24. Pupillidae (Gastrocoptinae). Philadelphia: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 380 p.
- Pilsbry H.A., Cooke C.M. 1918âÂÂ1920. Manual of Conchology. Second Series: Pulmonata, 25. Pupillidae (Gastrocoptinae, Vertigininae). 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.129âÂÂ261.
- Páll-Gergely B., 2023. Anauchen (?) kozari n. sp., a new Hypselostomatid species from Laos (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Pupilloidea). Acta Phytopathologica et Entomologica Hungarica: 1-9
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