Gastrocopta

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

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

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

In Europe, the genus Gastrocopta has been extirpated; its fossils there are known mainly from the Neogene, but its fossil range in Europe is from the Oligocene to the Lower Pleistocene.

Species
Species within the genus Gastrocopta include:


 * † Gastrocopta abyssifluminis Roth, 1999
 * † Gastrocopta acuminata (Klein, 1846)
 * † Gastrocopta akokala Pierce in Pierce & Constenius, 2001
 * Gastrocopta allyni Roth & Christensen, 1984
 * Gastrocopta armifera (Say, 1821)
 * Gastrocopta ashmuni (Chamberlin & Berry, 1930) - sluice snaggletooth
 * Gastrocopta avanica (Benson, 1863)
 * Gastrocopta bannertonensis (Gabriel, 1930)
 * Gastrocopta barbadensis (Pfeiffer, 1853)
 * Gastrocopta boninensis Pilsbry, 1916
 * † Gastrocopta borysthaenica Prysjazhnjuk, 2015
 * † Gastrocopta bugensis Prysjazhnjuk in Gozhik & Prysjazhnjuk, 1978
 * † Gastrocopta chichijimana Pilsbry, 1916
 * Gastrocopta cochisensis (Pilsbry & Ferriss, 1910)
 * † Gastrocopta conica Pierce in Pierce & Rasmussen, 1992
 * Gastrocopta contracta (Say, 1822)
 * † Gastrocopta cordillerae Roth, 1986
 * Gastrocopta corticaria (Say, 1816)
 * Gastrocopta cristata Pilsbry & Vanatta
 * Gastrocopta dalliana (Sterki, 1898)
 * Gastrocopta damarica (Ancey, 1888)
 * † Gastrocopta dehmi Schlickum & Strauch, 1979
 * † Gastrocopta devjatkini Prysjazhnjuk in Prysjazhnjuk et al., 1975
 * † Gastrocopta didymodus (Sandberger, 1858)
 * Gastrocopta duplicata (Preston, 1911)
 * † Gastrocopta edlaueri (Wenz, 1921)
 * Gastrocopta ejecta (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1912)
 * Gastrocopta eudeli Pilsbry, 1916
 * Gastrocopta ferdinandi (Andreae, 1902)
 * † Gastrocopta fissidens (Sandberger, 1858)
 * Gastrocopta geminidens (Pilsbry)
 * Gastrocopta gularis F. G. Thompson & López, 1996
 * Gastrocopta hedleyi Pilsbry, 1917
 * Gastrocopta iheringi (Suter, 1900)
 * † Gastrocopta itaboraiensis Salvador & Simone, 2013
 * † Gastrocopta kazachica Steklov in Steklov & Tsytovich, 1967
 * † Gastrocopta kedeica Prysiazhniuk, 2017 †
 * † Gastrocopta kintlana Pierce in Pierce & Constenius, 2001 †
 * Gastrocopta klunzingeri (Jickeli, 1873)
 * † Gastrocopta krestnikovi Steklov, 1967
 * † Gastrocopta lamellidens (F. Sandberger, 1858)
 * Gastrocopta larapinta (Tate, 1896)
 * † Gastrocopta lartetii (Dupuy, 1850)
 * † Gastrocopta leonardi Pierce in Pierce & Rasmussen, 1992
 * Gastrocopta macdonnelli (Brazier, 1875)
 * Gastrocopta margaretae (Cox, 1868)
 * † Gastrocopta mezzalirai (Ferreira & Coelho, 1971)
 * Gastrocopta microscopica (E. von Martens, 1898)
 * † Gastrocopta minuscula Pierce in Pierce & Rasmussen, 1992
 * † Gastrocopta mongolica Prysjazhnjuk in Prysjazhnjuk et al., 1975
 * † Gastrocopta montana Roth, 1986
 * † Gastrocopta moravica (Petrbok, 1959)
 * Gastrocopta mussoni Pilsbry, 1917
 * † Gastrocopta nouletiana (Dupuy, 1850)
 * † Gastrocopta obesa Pierce in Pierce & Rasmussen, 1992
 * Gastrocopta oblonga (Pfeiffer, 1852)
 * † Gastrocopta ogasawarana Pilsbry, 1916
 * † Gastrocopta oviforma Pierce in Pierce & Rasmussen, 1992
 * † Gastrocopta patagonica Miquel & P. E. Rodriguez, 2016
 * Gastrocopta pediculus (Shuttleworth, 1852)
 * Gastrocopta pellucida (Pfeiffer, 1840)
 * Gastrocopta pentodon (Say, 1821)
 * Gastrocopta pilsbryana (Pilsbry, 1948) - Montane snaggletooth
 * † Gastrota polocopnica Harzhauser & Neubauer, 2018
 * Gastrocopta procera (Gould)
 * Gastrocopta prototypus (Pilsbry, 1899)
 * † Gastrocopta pseudotheeli Steklov, 1966
 * † Gastrocopta quadriplicata (A. Braun in Walchner, 1851)
 * Gastrocopta recondita (Tapparone Canefri, 1883)
 * † Gastrocopta rhenana Geissert, 1983
 * Gastrocopta riograndensis (Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1900)
 * Gastrocopta rixfordi Hanna, 1923
 * Gastrocopta rupicola
 * Gastrocopta rupicola marginalba (Pfeiffer, 1840)
 * † Gastrocopta russelli Pierce in Pierce & Rasmussen, 1992
 * † Gastrocopta sacraecoronae Krolopp, 1858
 * Gastrocopta sagittaria Roth, 1986 †
 * †Gastrocopta sandbergeri Stworzewicz & Prisyazhnyuk, 2006
 * † Gastrocopta serotina (Ložek, 1964)
 * Gastrocopta servilis (Gould, 1843)
 * † Gastrocopta shandgolica Prysjazhnjuk in Prysjazhnjuk et al., 1975
 * Gastrocopta sharae Salvador, Cavallari & Simone, 2017
 * †Gastrocopta skiphica Prysjazhnjuk in Gozhik & Prysjazhnjuk, 1978
 * Gastrocopta solitaria (Smith, 1890)
 * † Gastrocopta steklovi Prisyazhnyuk, 1973
 * Gastrocopta strangei (Pfeiffer, 1854)
 * Gastrocopta stupefaciens Pokryszko, 1996
 * † Gastrocopta suevica (O. Boettger, 1889)
 * Gastrocopta tappaniana (C. B. Adams, 1841)
 * † Gastrocopta tavennerensis Pierce in Pierce & Rasmussen, 1992
 * Gastrocopta theeli (Westerlund, 1877)
 * Gastrocopta thomasseti Pilsbry, 1929
 * † Gastrocopta turgida (Reuss in Reuss & Meyer, 1849)
 * † Gastrocopta tuvaense Steklov, 1967
 * † Gastrocopta valentini Stworzewicz, 2007

subgenus Vertigopsis Sterki, 1892
 * † Gastrocopta moravica (Petrbok, 1959)
 * † Gastrocopta n. sp. from the Viernheim research borehole
 * Species brought into synonymy:
 * Gastrocopta soneri Chamberlin & Jones, 1929: synonym of Gastrocopta pilsbryana (Sterki, 1890)