''Gastrocopta iheringi'' is a
species of very 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 gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
, a
terrestrial 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 includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the family
Vertiginidae.
The specific name ''iheringi'' is in honor of the zoologist
Hermann von Ihering, who collected the type specimen.
Veitenheimer-Mendes & Oliveira redescribed the type material in 2012.
[ Veitenheimer-Mendes I. L. & de Oliveira C. R. P. (2012). "Gastrocopta iheringi (Suter, 1900) (Gastropoda, Vertiginidae): redescrição do material-tipo. 'Gastrocopta iheringi'' (Suter, 1900) (Gastropoda, Vertiginidae): redescription of type material. ''Revista Biotemas'' 25(1): 181-185. .]
Distribution
This species occurs in
Brazil[ 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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. and
Venezuela.
[Richards H. G. & Hummelinck P. W. (1940). "Land & Freshwater Mollusks from Margarita Island, Venezuela". ''Notulae Naturae'' 62 1-16]
at Google Books
References
Vertiginidae
Gastropods described in 1900
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