Gastrocoptidae

Gastrocoptidae Temporal range: Paleocene-recent
Shells of Gastrocopta huttoniana and Gastrocopta theeli
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Pupilloidea
Family:	Gastrocoptidae Pilsbry, 1918
Subfamilies
Gastrocoptinae Hypselostomatinae

Gastrocoptidae is a family of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Pupilloidea. ^{[1] [2]}

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

• BifidariaSterki, 1891: synonym of GastrocoptaWollaston, 1878 (junior subjective synonym)
• FalsopupaGermain, 1918: synonym of GastrocoptaWollaston, 1878 (junior synonym)
• LeucochilusO. Boettger, 1881: synonym of Gastrocopta (Albinula)Sterki, 1892 represented as GastrocoptaWollaston, 1878 (Invalid: Leucochilus was originally an unjustified emendation of LeucochilaMartens, 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)
• AustralbinulaPilsbry, 1916 : synonym of Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878 (junior synonym)
• GyrodariaIredale, 1940: synonym of Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878
• Hypselostomatinae Zilch, 1959: synonym of Hypselostomatidae Zilch, 1959 (superseded rank)

References

1. Philippe Bouchet, Jean-Pierre Rocroi, Bernhard Hausdorf, Andrzej Kaim, Yasunori Kano, Alexander Nützel, Pavel Parkhaev, Michael Schrödl and Ellen E. Strong. 2017. Revised Classification, Nomenclator and Typification of Gastropod and Monoplacophoran Families . Malacologia, 61(1-2): 1-526.
2. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Gastrocoptidae Pilsbry, 1918. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=842722 on 2020-05-02
3. Balashov I.A. & Perkovsky E.E. 2020. An Eocene land snail Balticopta gusakovi gen.n., sp.n. (Stylommatophora: Gastrocoptidae) from Baltic amber // Invertebrate Zoology. Vol.17. No.1: 18–24.
4. Harzhauser M., Neubauer T.A., Georgopoulou E., Harl J. 2014. The Early Miocene (Burdigalian) mollusc fauna of the North Bohemian Lake (Most Basin) // Bulletin of Geosciences. Vol.89. No.4. P.819–908.]

Literature

• Pilsbry H.A. 1916–1918. Manual of Conchology. Second Series: Pulmonata, 24. Pupillidae (Gastrocoptinae). Philadelphia: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 380 p.
• Pilsbry H.A., Cooke C.M. 1918–1920. 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.129–261.
• Páll-Gergely B., 2023. Anauchen (?) kozari n. sp., a new Hypselostomatid species from Laos (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Pupilloidea). Acta Phytopathologica et Entomologica Hungarica: 1-9

Links

• Gojšina, V., Hunyadi, A., Sutcharit, C., Tongkerd, P., Auffenberg, K., Grego, J., Vermeulen, J. J., Reischütz, A. & Páll-Gergely, B. (2025). "A new start? Revision of the genera Anauchen, Bensonella, Gyliotrachela and Hypselostoma (Gastropoda, Eupulmonata, Hypselostomatidae) of Southeast Asia with description of 46 new species". Zookeys. 1235. Retrieved 25 January 2026.
• MolluscaBase - Gastrocoptidae