Gastrocoptidae

Gastrocoptidae; Temporal range: Paleocene-recent
	Shells of Gastrocopta huttoniana and Gastrocopta theeli
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Pupilloidea
Family:	Gastrocoptidae; Pilsbry, 1918
Subfamilies
	Gastrocoptinae; Hypselostomatinae;
Synonyms
	Hypselostomatidae Zilch, 1959

Gastrocoptidae is a family of minute, 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:

† Ptychalaea Boettger, 1889

Subfamily Gastrocoptinae Pilsbry, 1918

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
Balticopta Balashov & Perkovsky, 2020 - fossil from Eocene Baltic amber^[3]
Cavipupa Pilsbry, 1934 - endemic to Philippines
Chaenaxis Pilsbry & Ferris, 1906 - North America
Gibbulina Beck, 1837
Ptychalaea Boettger, 1889 - fossil from Miocene and Eocene of Europe^[3]^[4]
Pumilicopta Solem, 1988 - Australia
Ulpia Hylton Scott, 1955

Subfamily Hypselostomatinae Zilch, 1959 - distributed mainly in Southeastern Asia and Australia

Hypselostoma Benson, 1856 - the type genus of the subfamily
Acinolaemus Thompson & Upatham, 1997
Anauchen Pilsbry, 1917
Angustopila Jochum, Slapnik & Páll-Gergely, 2014
Antroapiculus Panha & Burch, 1999
Aulacospira Möllendorff, 1890
Bensonella Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1900
Boysia L. Pfeiffer, 1849
Boysidia Ancey, 1881
Clostophis Benson, 1860
Dentisphaera Páll-Gergely & Jochum, 2017 - endemic to the caves in Northern Vietnam^[5]
Gyliotrachela Tomlin, 1930
Krobylos Panha & Burch, 1999
Montapiculus Panha & Burch, 1999
Pseudostreptaxis Möllendorff, 1890
Tonkinospira Jochum, Slapnik & Páll-Gergely, 2014
Paraboysidia Pilsbry, 1917

References

^ 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.
^ 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
^ ^a ^b 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.
^ 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.]
^ Páll-Gergely, B.; Jochum, A.; Asami, T. (2017). Three new species and a new genus of Hypselostomatidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) from Cong Troi Cave, Northern Vietnam. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 63(3): 327-341.

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

MolluscaBase - Gastrocoptidae

[Bouchet-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.

[WoRMS-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

[Balashov-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.]

[5] Páll-Gergely, B.; Jochum, A.; Asami, T. (2017). Three new species and a new genus of Hypselostomatidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) from Cong Troi Cave, Northern Vietnam. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 63(3): 327-341.

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