Gastrocoptidae

Hypselostomatidae Zilch, 1959 Gastrocoptidae is a family of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Pupilloidea.

[1][2] 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.

For some time was considered as a subfamily in Vertiginidae, some species of these two families are very similar by the shell's characters.

Genera in the family Gastrocoptidae include: Subfamily Gastrocoptinae Pilsbry, 1918 Subfamily Hypselostomatinae Zilch, 1959 - distributed mainly in Southeastern Asia and Australia