Gastrocopta iheringi

Gastrocopta iheringi is a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Gastrocoptidae.

Gastrocopta iheringi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Gastrocoptidae
Genus:	Gastrocopta
Species:	G. iheringi
Binomial name
Gastrocopta iheringi (Suter, 1900)[1]
Synonyms
Pupa iheringi Suter, 1900

The specific name iheringi is in honor of the zoologist Hermann von Ihering, who collected the type specimen.^[2]

Veitenheimer-Mendes & Oliveira redescribed the type material in 2012.^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in Brazil^[3] and Venezuela.^[4]