# 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)