Gastrocoptidae

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

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

Hypselostomatidae Zilch, 1959

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:

Subfamily Gastrocoptinae Pilsbry, 1918

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
  • 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
  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.]
  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.

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.
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