Genus Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878

Museums

Regional Maps

• Gastrocopta Wollaston, T.V. 1878. Testacea Atlantica or the land and freshwater shells of the Azores, Madeiras, Salvages, Canaries, Cape Verdes, and Saint Helena. London : L. Reeve & Co. 588 pp. [515].

  Type species:

   Pupa acarus Benson, 1856 by subsequent designation, see Pilsbry, H.A. 1916. in Tryon, G.W. & Pilsbry, H.A. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : Conchological Department, Academy of Natural Sciences Ser. 2 Vol. 24 Pt 93 pp.1–112. [18 Dec. 1916] [7].

  Secondary source:

   Benthem Jutting, W.S.S. van 1952. Systematic studies on the non-marine Mollusca of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. III Critical revision of the Javanese pulmonate land-snails of the families Ellobiidae to Limacidae, with an appendix on Helicarionidae. Treubia 21: 291-435 [354].
• Australbinula Pilsbry, H.A. 1916. in Tryon, G.W. & Pilsbry, H.A. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : Conchological Department, Academy of Natural Sciences Ser. 2 Vol. 24 Pt 93 pp.1–112. [18 Dec. 1916] [11].

  Type species:

   Pupa (Vertigo) rossiteri Brazier, 1875 by original designation.
• Gyrodaria Iredale, T. 1940. Guide to the land shells of New South Wales. Australian Naturalist 10: 227-236 [234].

  Type species:

   Australbinula strangeana Iredale, 1937 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Solem, A. 1986. Pupilloid land snails from the south and mid-west coasts of Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 7: 95-124 [98]
• Solem, A. 1991. Distribution and diversity patterns of Australian pupilloid land snails (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Pupillidae, s.l.). Veliger 34(3): 233-252 [249]

 

Introduction

Gastrocopta is a cosmopolitan genus found throughout drier areas on the Australian mainland. Gastrocopta differs from Pumilicopta by having fewer and less recessed apertural teeth and a more cylindrical coiling pattern.

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

PUPILLIDAE: Leucochilus pediculus ovatula Moellendorff, 1890 [a species described from the Phillipines; very close to Gastrocopta pediculus] — Moellendorff, O.F. von 1890. Die Landschnecken-Fauna der Insel Cebu. Bericht über die Senckenbergischen Naturforschende Gesellschaft 1890: 189-292 [253]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Found throughout drier areas of the Australian mainland. Elsewhere cosmopolitan. Most tropical and temperate regions except Europe

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pilbara (PIL) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Nandewar (NAN), Sydney Basin (SB) ; NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, Vic: South East Corner (SEC), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB) ; NT, Qld, SA, WA: Dampierland (DL), Finke (FIN) ; NT, Qld, WA: Mount Isa Inlier (MII) ; NT, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nullarbor (NUL), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Shell tiny, cylindrically pupiform, mainly dextral with one sinistral species, smooth with occasional, very fine growth threads, opaque; aperture quadrate to subquadrate with varying numbers and arrangements of teeth and lamellae; lip strongly reflected; umbilicus extremely narrow. Colour silky drab white to brown.

 

Diagnosis References

Pokryszko, B.M. 1996. The Gastrocoptinae of Australia (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupilloidea): systematics, distribution and origin. Invertebrate Taxonomy 10: 1085-1150 [1088-1089]

Solem, A. 1989. Non-camaenid land snails of the Kimberley and Northern Territory, Australia. I. Systematics, affinities and ranges. Invertebrate Taxonomy 2(4): 455-604 [478-481]

Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp. [102]

 

General References

Pokryszko, B.M. 1996. The Gastrocoptinae of Australia (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupilloidea): systematics, distribution and origin. Invertebrate Taxonomy 10: 1085-1150 [1087-1089]

Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp. [102, 566]

Whisson, C.S. & Köhler, F. 2013. Gastrocopta (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pupillidae) in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. ZooKeys 261: 15-39 [published online Jan 24, 2013]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
28-Sep-2022	PUPILLOIDEI (Orthurethra)	08-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
12-Apr-2022	HELICINA	08-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
06-May-2020	STYLOMMATOPHORA	08-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
06-May-2020	HELICINA	08-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
04-Dec-2018	HETEROBRANCHIA	08-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
03-Oct-2018	HETEROBRANCHIA	08-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri
11-Feb-2014	PUPILLIDAE	08-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
24-Jul-2012		08-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
27-Jun-2012		08-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
		08-Mar-2024	MODIFIED