''Radiodiscus iheringi'' is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

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 gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...

, a

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth. 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 or near the ground, as opposed to ...

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 Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

in the family

Charopidae Charopidae is a taxonomic family of small air-breathing land snails (and semi-slugs such as ''Otoconcha dimidiata''), terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Charopidae Hutt ...

. 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 ‘fonctionna ...

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 ''Radiodiscus'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Charopidae. Species The genus ''Radiodiscus'' includes the following species: * ''Radiodiscus amoenus'' (Thiele, 1927 Salvador R. B., Ch ...

'' 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