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.
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
^Páll-Gergely, B.; Jochum, A.; Asami, T. (2017). Three new species and a new genus of Hypselostomatidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) from Cong Troi Cave, Northern Vietnam. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 63(3): 327-341.
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.
Páll-Gergely B., 2023. Anauchen (?) kozari n. sp., a new Hypselostomatid species from Laos (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Pupilloidea). Acta Phytopathologica et Entomologica Hungarica: 1-9