Gastrocopta is a genus of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Gastrocoptidae.[3]

Gastrocopta
Temporal range: Oligocene–Recent[1]
Apertural view of a shell of Gastrocopta armifera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Gastrocoptidae
Genus: Gastrocopta
Wollaston, 1878[2]
Diversity[1]
Over 20 extant species

Over 10 extinct species

Synonyms
List
  • Australbinula Pilsbry, 1916
  • Australbinula (Papualbinula) Iredale, 1941
  • Bifidaria Sterki, 1891
  • Bifidaria (Immersidens) Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1900
  • Falsopupa Germain, 1918
  • Gastrocopta (Albinula) Sterki, 1892
  • Gastrocopta (Ameralbinula) Pierce, 1992
  • Gastrocopta (Australbinula) Pilsbry, 1916
  • Gastrocopta (Falsopupa) Germain, 1918
  • Gastrocopta (Gastrocopta) Wollaston, 1878
  • Gastrocopta (Geminidens) Pilsbry, 1930
  • Gastrocopta (Immersidens) Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1900
  • Gastrocopta (Privatula) Sterki, 1893
  • Gastrocopta (Sinalbinula) Pilsbry, 1916
  • Gastrocopta (Staurotrema) Pilsbry, 1948
  • Gastrocopta (Vertigopsis) Sterki, 1892
  • Gyrodaria Iredale, 1940
  • Leucochilus O. Boettger, 1881
  • Pupa (Albinula) Sterki, 1892
  • Pupa (Bifidaria) Sterki, 1891
  • Pupa (Eubifidaria) Sterki, 1893
  • Pupa (Gastrocopta) Wollaston, 1878
  • Pupa (Leucochilus) O. Boettger, 1881
  • Pupa (Privatula) Sterki, 1893
  • Pupa (Vertigopsis) Sterki, 1892
  • Pupilla (Gastrocopta) Wollaston, 1878

Gastrocopta is the type genus of the subfamily Gastrocoptinae.[4] The height of the shell is about 2 mm.[1]

Distribution edit

The Recent distribution of Gastrocopta includes North America, eastern Asia, central Asia[1] and South America (Brazil[5] 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.[1][6]

Species edit

Species within the genus Gastrocopta include:

subgenus Vertigopsis Sterki, 1892[13]

Species brought into synonymy

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i (in Czech) 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.
  2. ^ Wollaston T. V. (1878). Testacea Atlantica or the land and freshwater shells of the Azores, Madeiras, Salvages, Canaries, Cape Verdes, and Saint Helena. pp. i-xi, 1-588, 1-16. London. page 515.
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  5. ^ a b c d e (in Portuguese) 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 Archived October 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ^ a b c d e Wedel J. (2008). "Pleistocene molluscs from research boreholes in the Heidelberg Basin". E&G – Quaternary Science Journal 57(3-4): 382-402. doi:10.3285/eg.57.3-4.6.
  7. ^ "Gastrocopta ashmuni". Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. Archived from the original on December 30, 2016. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
  8. ^ a b c d e f "Mollusca" Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
  9. ^ a b c Richards H. G. & Hummelinck P. W. (1940). "Land & Freshwater Mollusks from Margarita Island, Venezuela". Notulae Naturae 62 1-16. at Google Books.
  10. ^ 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. doi:10.5007/2175-7925.2012v25n1p181.
  11. ^ "Gastrocopta pilsbryana". Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. Archived from the original on December 30, 2016. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
  12. ^ Salvador, Rodrigo B.; Cavallari, Daniel C.; Simone, Luiz R.L. (15 February 2017). "Taxonomical study on a sample of land and freshwater snails from caves in central Brazil, with description of a new species". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 93 (1): 135–141. doi:10.3897/zse.93.10995.
  13. ^ Sterki V. (1892). "Preliminary list of North American Pupidae (north of Mexico)". The Nautilus 6: 2-8. page 4.
  • 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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