Gastrocoptidae

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

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
 * 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
 * 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
 * Gyliotrachela Tomlin, 1930
 * Krobylos Panha & Burch, 1999
 * Montapiculus Panha & Burch, 1999
 * Pseudostreptaxis Möllendorff, 1890
 * Tonkinospira Jochum, Slapnik & Páll-Gergely, 2014
 * Paraboysidia Pilsbry, 1917

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