- Source: 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:
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)
References
Pierce, H.G.; Rasmussen, D.L. (1992). The nonmarine mollusks of the Late Oligocene-Early Miocene Cabbage Patch fauna of western Montana. I. Geologic setting and the family Pupillidae (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora). Journal of Paleontology. 66(1): 39-5
Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links
Media related to Gastrocopta at Wikimedia Commons
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Haha-jima
- Gastrocopta
- Gastrocopta moravica
- Gastrocopta klunzingeri
- Gastrocopta armifera
- Gastrocopta sp. Viernheim
- Gastrocopta chichijimana
- Gastrocopta boninensis
- Gastrocopta pellucida
- Gastrocopta sharae
- Gastrocopta pentodon
