Africanogyrus rodriguezensis
| Africanogyrus rodriguezensis | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Hygrophila |
| Superfamily: | Planorboidea |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Genus: | Africanogyrus |
| Species: | A. rodriguezensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Africanogyrus rodriguezensis (Crosse, 1873) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Afrogyrus rodriguezensis (Crosse, 1873) | |
Africanogyrus rodriguezensis is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies. This species is endemic to Mauritius.
This species' generic name was changed to Africanogyrus in 2007.[2]
References
- ↑ Brown D. S. (1996). Africanogyrus rodriguezensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
- ↑ 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.
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