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. 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.