Gastrocopta Temporal range: | |
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Apertural view of a shell of Gastrocopta armifera | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Gastrocoptidae |
Genus: | Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878 [2] |
Diversity [1] | |
Over 20 extant species Over 10 extinct species | |
Synonyms | |
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Gastrocopta is a genus of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Gastrocoptidae. [3]
Gastrocopta is the type genus of the subfamily Gastrocoptinae. [4] The height of the shell is about 2 mm. [1]
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 within the genus Gastrocopta include:
subgenus Vertigopsis Sterki, 1892 [13]