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
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superorder:	Hygrophila
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)