Gastrocopta
| Gastrocopta Temporal range: Oligocene–Recent[1] | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Gastrocopta armifera | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
| Family: | Vertiginidae |
| Subfamily: | Gastrocoptinae |
| Genus: | Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878[2] |
| Diversity[1] | |
| over 20 extant species over 10 extinct species | |
Gastrocopta is a genus of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Vertiginidae, the vertigo snails.
Gastrocopta is the type genus of the subfamily Gastrocoptinae.[3] The height of the shell is about 2 mm.[1]
Distribution
The Recent distribution of Gastrocopta includes North America, eastern Asia, central Asia[1] and South America (Brazil[4] and Venezuela).
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.[1][5]
Species
Species within the genus Gastrocopta include:
- Gastrocopta armifera (Say, 1821)[1]
- Gastrocopta barbadensis (Pfeiffer, 1853)[6][7]
- Gastrocopta contracta (Say, 1822)[6]
- Gastrocopta cristata Pilsbry & Vanatta[1]
- † Gastrocopta chichijimana Pilsbry, 1916
- Gastrocopta boninensis Pilsbry, 1916
- Gastrocopta geminidens (Pilsbry)[7]
- Gastrocopta iheringi (Suter, 1900)[4][7][8]
- Gastrocopta oblonga (Pfeiffer, 1852)[4]
- † Gastrocopta ogasawarana Pilsbry, 1916
- Gastrocopta pellucida (Pfeiffer, 1840)[6]
- Gastrocopta pentodon (Say, 1821)
- Gastrocopta procera (Gould)[1]
- Gastrocopta rupicola[6]
- Gastrocopta rupicola marginalba (Pfeiffer, 1840)[6]
- † Gastrocopta sacraecoronae Krolopp, 1858[1]
- † Gastrocopta serotina (Ložek, 1964)[5]
- Gastrocopta servilis (Gould, 1843)[4][6]
- Gastrocopta solitaria (Smith, 1890)[4]
- Gastrocopta theeli (Westerlund, 1877)[5]
subgenus Vertigopsis Sterki, 1892[9]
- † Gastrocopta moravica (Petrbok, 1959)[5]
- † Gastrocopta n. sp. from the Viernheim research borehole[5]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 (Czech) Kovanda J. (2005). "Nová lokalita vzácného plže Gastrocopta theeli (West.) od Pátku u Loun. [A new locality of a rare Gastropod Gastrocopta theeli (West.) from Pátek near Louny]". Zprávy o geologických výzkumech v roce 2004: 59-61. PDF, table 6.
- ↑ Wollaston T. V. (1878). Testacea Atlantica or the land and freshwater shells of the Azores, Madeiras, Salvages, Canaries, Cape Verdes, and Saint Helena. pp. i-xi, 1-588, 1-16. London. page 515.
- ↑ Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- 1 2 3 4 5 (Portuguese) Salgado N. C. & Coelho A. C. S. (2003). "Moluscos terrestres do Brasil (Gastrópodes operculados ou não, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae e Limacidae)". Rev. Biol. Trop. 51(Suppl. 3): 149-189. (with English abstract), PDF.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Wedel J. (2008). "Pleistocene molluscs from research boreholes in the Heidelberg Basin". E&G – Quaternary Science Journal 57(3-4): 382-402. doi:10.3285/eg.57.3-4.6.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Mollusca". Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
- 1 2 3 Richards H. G. & Hummelinck P. W. (1940). "Land & Freshwater Mollusks from Margarita Island, Venezuela". Notulae Naturae 62 1-16. at Google Books.
- ↑ Veitenheimer-mendes I. L. & de Oliveira C. R. P. (2012). "Gastrocopta iheringi (Suter, 1900) (Gastropoda, Vertiginidae): redescrição do material-tipo. [Gastrocopta iheringi (Suter, 1900) (Gastropoda, Vertiginidae): redescription of type material].". Revista Biotemas 25(1): 181-185. doi:10.5007/2175-7925.2012v25n1p181.
- ↑ Sterki V. (1892). "Preliminary list of North American Pupidae (north of Mexico)". The Nautilus 6: 2-8. page 4.
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