Gastrocoptidae
Family of gastropods
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Gastrocoptidae is a family of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Pupilloidea.[1][2]
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| Gastrocoptidae Temporal range: Paleocene-recent | |
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| Shells of Gastrocopta huttoniana and Gastrocopta theeli | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
| Family: | Gastrocoptidae Pilsbry, 1918 |
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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[3]
- † Ptychalaea Boettger, 1889 fossil from Miocene and Eocene of Europe[3][4]
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 (junior subjective synonym)
- Falsopupa Germain, 1918: synonym of Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878 (junior synonym)
- Leucochilus O. Boettger, 1881: synonym of Gastrocopta (Albinula) Sterki, 1892 represented as Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878 (Invalid: Leucochilus was originally an unjustified emendation of Leucochila Martens, 1860, but had been used as a separate name until it was placed on the Official Index by Opinion 115, 1931; junior synonym)
- Aulacospirinae Zilch, 1959 : synonym of Hypselostomatinae Zilch, 1959 accepted as Hypselostomatidae Zilch, 1959 (junior subjective synonym)
- Australbinula Pilsbry, 1916 : synonym of Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878 (junior synonym)
- Gyrodaria Iredale, 1940: synonym of Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878
- Hypselostomatinae Zilch, 1959: synonym of Hypselostomatidae Zilch, 1959 (superseded rank)
