Africanogyrus

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.

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]

In 2007 the genus Afrogyrus 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] In turn, Africanogyrus has become a synonym of Hovorbis D.S. Brown & Mandahl-Barth, 1973

Species

The genus Afrogyrus used contains four species, all of which have become synonyms:[1]

  • Africanogyrus coretus (de Blainville, 1826):[2] synonym of Hovorbis coretus (de Blainville, 1826)
  • Africanogyrus crassilabrum (Morelet, 1860): synonym of Hovorbis crassilabrum (Morelet, 1860)
  • Africanogyrus rodriguezensis (Crosse, 1873)(synonym: Afrogyrus rodriguezensis): synonym of Hovorbis rodriguezensis (Crosse, 1873)
  • Africanogyrus starmuehlneri (Brown, 1980)(synonym: Afrogyrus starmuehlneri): synonym of Hovorbis starmuehlneri (Brown, 1980)

References
  1. 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. Archived from the original on 2008-01-05.
  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
  • 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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