Gastrocopta

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Gastrocopta
Temporal range: Oligocene–Recent [1]
Gastrocopta armifera shell.jpg
Apertural view of a shell of Gastrocopta armifera
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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
  • AustralbinulaPilsbry, 1916
  • Australbinula (Papualbinula)Iredale, 1941
  • BifidariaSterki, 1891
  • Bifidaria (Immersidens)Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1900
  • FalsopupaGermain, 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
  • GyrodariaIredale, 1940
  • LeucochilusO. 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 a genus of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Gastrocoptidae. [3]

Contents

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

Distribution

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

Species within the genus Gastrocopta include:

subgenus Vertigopsis Sterki, 1892 [13]

Species brought into synonymy

Related Research Articles

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<i>Pupilla</i> Genus of gastropods

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pupillidae</span> Family of gastropods

Pupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.

<i>Cecilioides</i> Genus of gastropods

Cecilioides is a genus of very small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ferussaciidae.

<i>Drymaeus</i> Genus of gastropods

Drymaeus is a large genus of medium-sized air-breathing, tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Peltellinae of the family Bulimulidae.

<i>Vallonia</i> Genus of gastropods

Vallonia is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Valloniidae.

<i>Carychium</i> Genus of gastropods

Carychium is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae.

<i>Plagiodontes</i> Genus of gastropods

Plagiodontes is a recent genus of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Odontostomidae.

Gastrocopta iheringi is a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Vertiginidae.

<i>Leiostracus</i> Genus of land snails

Leiostracus is a genus of small to medium-sized neotropical, air-breathing land snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in family Simpulopsidae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gastrocoptidae</span> Family of gastropods

Gastrocoptidae is a family of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Pupilloidea.

References

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  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.
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  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 .
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