''Radiodiscus iheringi'' is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

of small air-breathing

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...

, a

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

in the family

Charopidae Charopidae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of small air-breathing land snails (and semi-slugs such as ''Otoconcha dimidiata''), terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoi ...

. This species was discovered and described by

César Marie Félix Ancey César Marie Félix Ancey (15 November 1860 – 10 October 1906) was a French conchologist and entomologist. For 23 years Ancey was 'conservateur' of collections for Charles Oberthür (1845–1924) at Rennes. Ancey was then a 'fonctionnaire' at ...

as ''Stephanoda iheringi'' in 1899. Fonseca and Thomé (1995) recombined it to ''Radiodiscus iheringi'' (Ancey, 1899) Fonseca Á. L. M. da & Thomé J. W. (1995). "DESCRICÃO DE ''RADIODISCUS VAZI'', SP .N. DE SÃO PAULO, BRASIL: COM PROPOSiÇÃO DE RECOMBINAÇÃO DE DUAS OUTRAS ESPÉCIES SOB ESTE GÊNERO E ''R. BOLACHAENSIS'', NOM.N. E SINONIMIZAÇÃO DE UMA ESPÉCIE DE ''RADIOCONUS'' (GASTROPODA, STYLOMMATOPHORA, CHAROPIDAE)". '' Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, Curitiba'' 11(2)(1994): 265–275
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while they accidentally synonymized it with a newly created name ''Radiodiscus bolachaensis''. Saldago and Coelho (2003) clarified the situation: ''Endodonta iheringi'' Thiele, 1927 is a synonym for '' Radiodiscus bolachaensis'' Fonseca & Thomé, 1995. Salgado N. C. & Coelho A. C. S. (2003). "Moluscos terrestres do Brasil (Gastrópodes operculados ou não, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae e Limacidae)". ''Rev. Biol. Trop.'' 51(Suppl. 3): 149–189. (with English abstract)
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Distribution

This species is found in

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, and

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. The type locality is

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, Brazil.

References

Charopidae Gastropods described in 1899 Taxa named by César Marie Félix Ancey Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Charopidae-stub