Afrogyrus
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Africanogyrus is a genus
Genus
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 of air-breathing freshwater snail
Freshwater snail
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, an aquatic
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 pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae
Planorbidae
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, the ram's horn snails and their allies.

In 2007 this genus 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].

Species

The genus Afrogyrus contains four species:
  • Africanogyrus coretus (de Blainville, 1826)
  • Africanogyrus crassilabrum (Morelet, 1860)
  • Africanogyrus rodriguezensis (Crosse, 1873) - synonym: Afrogyrus rodriguezensis
  • Africanogyrus starmuehlneri (Brown, 1980) - synonym: Afrogyrus starmuehlneri

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
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    255(1): 55-82. doi:10.1017/S095283690100111X.
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