Africanogyrus

Africanogyrus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily: Planorboidea
Family: Planorbidae
Genus: Africanogyrus
Özdikmen & Darilmaz, 2007[1]
Diversity
4 species[1]
Synonyms

Afrogyrus Brown & Mandahl-Barth, 1973 [non Afrogyrus Brinck, 1955]

Africanogyrus is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.

In 2007 this genus was defined as a junior homonym and Africanogyrus was proposed as a replacement name. Africanogyrus would replace Afrogyrus Brown & Mandahl-Barth, 1973 [not the same thing as Afrogyrus Brinck, 1955].[1]

Species

The genus Afrogyrus contains four species:[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Özdikmen, H.; Darilmaz, M. B. (2007). "Africanogyrus nom. n., a replacement name for the preoccupied snail genus Afrogyrus Brown & Mandahl-Barth, 1973 (Gastropoda: Planorbidae)" (in English). African Invertebrates 48 (2): 259–260. http://www.africaninvertebrates.org.za/OzdikmenDarilmaz_2007_2_180.aspx. 
  2. ^ Appleton C., Curtis B., Ghamizi M., Jørgensen A., Kristensen T. K., Lange C. N., Stensgaard A.-S. & Van Damme D. (2009). Africanogyrus coretus. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 13 December 2010.

Further reading