In 1900, Henry Suter, a New Zealand malacologist, described six land snail taxa from South America, mostly from Brazil. These taxa received little further attention from malacologists and the unusual depository of its type specimens (New Zealand) caused much confusion in the literature. Suter'S types and taxa are thus revisited in the present work. In summary, the following species are considered valid: Gastrocopta iheringi (Gastrocoptidae), Scolodonta interrupta (Scolodontidae), Radiodiscus compactus, and Radiodiscus patagonicus (Charopidae). Streptaxis tumescens is a junior synonym of Happia vitrina (Scolodontidae) and Pyramidula schuppi is a junior synonym of Rotadiscus amancaezensis (Charopidae).
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