Gastrocopta

Gastrocopta
Temporal range: Oligocene–Recent[1]
Apertural view of a shell of Gastrocopta armifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
clade Orthurethra

Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Vertiginidae
Subfamily: Gastrocoptinae
Genus: Gastrocopta
Wollaston, 1878[2]
Diversity[1]
over 20 extant species
over 10 extinct species

Gastrocopta is a genus of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Vertiginidae, the vertigo snails.

Gastrocopta is the type genus of the subfamily Gastrocoptinae.[3] 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[4] and Venezuela).

The Gastrocopta genus is known mainly from the Neogene in Europe, but its fossil range is from the Oligocene to the Lower Pleistocene in Europe. It is extinct in Europe.[1][5]

Species

Species within the genus Gastrocopta include:

subgenus Vertigopsis Sterki, 1892[9]


References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 (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. Bouchet P.; Rocroi J.-P.; Frýda J.; Hausdorf B.; Ponder W.; Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 (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.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 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.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Mollusca". Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
  7. 1 2 3 Richards H. G. & Hummelinck P. W. (1940). "Land & Freshwater Mollusks from Margarita Island, Venezuela". Notulae Naturae 62 1-16. at Google Books.
  8. 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.
  9. Sterki V. (1892). "Preliminary list of North American Pupidae (north of Mexico)". The Nautilus 6: 2-8. page 4.
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