Africanogyrus starmuehlneri

Africanogyrus starmuehlneri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily: Planorboidea
Family: Planorbidae
Genus: Africanogyrus
Species: A. starmuehlneri
Binomial name
Africanogyrus starmuehlneri
(Brown, 1980)
Synonyms

Afrogyrus starmuehlneri (Brown, 1980)

Africanogyrus starmuehlneri is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae the ram's horn snails and their allies. This species is endemic to Madagascar.

The generic name was changed to Africanogyrus in 2007.[2]

References

  1. Van Damme, D. (2016). "Africanogyrus starmuehlneri". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2016: e.T619A91287776. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T619A91287776.en. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  2. 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.


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