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| Genus: | Africanogyrus Özdikmen & Darilmaz, 2007[1]
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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 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
- ^ 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)". African Invertebrates. 48 (2): 259–260. Archived from the original on 2008-01-05.
- ^ Albrecht, C.; Clewing, C.; Appleton, C.; Curtis, B.; Ghamizi, M.; Jørgensen, A.; Kristensen, T.K.; Lange, C.; Stensgaard, A.-S. (2018). "Africanogyrus coretus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T165775A120113348. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T165775A120113348.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
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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