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

List of synonyms

Species within the genus Gastrocopta include:
subgenus Vertigopsis Sterki, 1892
;Species brought into synonymy: