Africanogyrus

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Africanogyrus
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Africanogyrus

Özdikmen & Darilmaz, 2007 [1]
Diversity [1]
4 species
Synonyms
  • Afrogyrus Brown & Mandahl-Barth, 1973 [non Afrogyrus Brinck, 1955]

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.

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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]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 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.

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