Hovorbis starmuehlneri

Hovorbis starmuehlneri
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superorder:	Hygrophila
Family:	Planorbidae
Genus:	Hovorbis
Species:	H. starmuehlneri
Binomial name
Hovorbis starmuehlneri (Brown, 1980)
Synonyms
Afrogyrus starmuehlneri (Brown, 1980)

Hovorbis starmuehlneri 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 Madagascar.

The original generic name was first changed to Africanogyrus in 2007. ^[3]

References

1. Van Damme, D. (2016). "Africanogyrus starmuehlneri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T619A91287776. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T619A91287776.en .
2. MolluscaBase (2018). Hovorbis starmuehlneri (Brown, 1980). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1245307 on 2019-01-16
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. (1980). New and little known gastropod species of fresh and brackish waters in Africa, Madagascar and Mauritius. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 46: 208-223. London.
• Brown D.S. (1994). Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance. London: Taylor and Francis, 607 p. page(s): 189