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Gastrocopta

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Vertiginidae

Scientific name
  
Gastrocopta

Higher classification
  
Pupillidae

Superfamily
  
Pupilloidea

Subfamily
  
Gastrocoptinae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Rank
  
Genus

Gastrocopta Southern Illinois Land Snails Checklist

Lower classifications
  
Gastrocopta contracta, Gastrocopta pentodon, Gastrocopta pellucida, Gastrocopta armifera, Gastrocopta boninensis

Glyphyalinia wheatleyi snail preying on gastrocopta tappaniana snail


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

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Gastrocopta Mollusks Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Gastrocopta is the type genus of the subfamily Gastrocoptinae. The height of the shell is about 2 mm.

Glyphyalinia wheatleyi snail preying on gastrocopta contracta snail


Distribution

The Recent distribution of Gastrocopta includes North America, eastern Asia, central Asia and South America (Brazil and Venezuela).

Gastrocopta Web page

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.

Species

Species within the genus Gastrocopta include:

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  • Gastrocopta armifera (Say, 1821)
  • Gastrocopta barbadensis (Pfeiffer, 1853)
  • Gastrocopta contracta (Say, 1822)
  • Gastrocopta cristata Pilsbry & Vanatta
  • † Gastrocopta chichijimana Pilsbry, 1916
  • Gastrocopta boninensis Pilsbry, 1916
  • Gastrocopta geminidens (Pilsbry)
  • Gastrocopta iheringi (Suter, 1900)
  • Gastrocopta oblonga (Pfeiffer, 1852)
  • † Gastrocopta ogasawarana Pilsbry, 1916
  • Gastrocopta pellucida (Pfeiffer, 1840)
  • Gastrocopta pentodon (Say, 1821)
  • Gastrocopta procera (Gould)
  • Gastrocopta rupicola
  • Gastrocopta rupicola marginalba (Pfeiffer, 1840)
  • † Gastrocopta sacraecoronae Krolopp, 1858
  • † Gastrocopta serotina (Ložek, 1964)
  • Gastrocopta servilis (Gould, 1843)
  • Gastrocopta sharae Salvador, Cavallari & Simone, 2017
  • Gastrocopta solitaria (Smith, 1890)
  • Gastrocopta theeli (Westerlund, 1877)

    • subgenus Vertigopsis Sterki, 1892

  • † Gastrocopta moravica (Petrbok, 1959)
  • † Gastrocopta n. sp. from the Viernheim research borehole

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    Gastrocopta Mollusks Carnegie Museum of Natural History

    Gastrocopta Gastrocopta Mollusca Gastropoda Pupillidae in the Pilbara region

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    References

    Gastrocopta Wikipedia
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