Hovorbis rodriguezensis

Hovorbis rodriguezensis
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superorder:	Hygrophila
Family:	Planorbidae
Genus:	Hovorbis
Species:	H. rodriguezensis
Binomial name
Hovorbis rodriguezensis (Crosse, 1873)
Synonyms
Africanogyrus rodriguezensis(Crosse, 1873) Afrogyrus rodriguezensis(Crosse, 1873) Planorbis rodriguezensisCrosse, 1873 (original combination)

Hovorbis rodriguezensis is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies. ^[2]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Mauritius.

This species' generic name was first changed to Africanogyrus in 2007. ^[3]

References

1. Van Damme, D. (2016). "Africanogyrus rodriguezensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T618A91287686. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T618A91287686.en .
2. MolluscaBase (2018). Hovorbis rodriguezensis (Crosse, 1873). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1245309 on 2019-01-15
3. 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.

• Brown D.S. (1994). Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance. London: Taylor and Francis, 607 p.

External links

• Crosse H. (1873). Diagnoses molluscorum novorum. Journal de Conchyliologie. 21: 136-144.