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[1] | |
| 4 species | |
| 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]
- Africanogyrus coretus (de Blainville, 1826)[2]
- Africanogyrus crassilabrum (Morelet, 1860)
- Africanogyrus rodriguezensis (Crosse, 1873) - synonym: Afrogyrus rodriguezensis
- Africanogyrus starmuehlneri (Brown, 1980) - synonym: Afrogyrus starmuehlneri
References
- 1 2 3 4 Özdikmen, H.; Darilmaz, M. B. (2007). "Africanogyrus nom. n., a replacement name for the preoccupied snail genus Afrogyrus Brown & Mandahl-Barth, 1973 (Gastropoda: Planorbidae)". African Invertebrates 48 (2): 259–260.
- ↑ 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
- Brown D. S. (2001). "Taxonomy, biogeography and phylogeny of the non-lacustrine African freshwater snails belonging to the genera Ceratophallus and Afrogyrus (Mollusca: Planorbidae)". Journal of Zoology 255(1): 55-82. doi:10.1017/S095283690100111X.
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