Africanogyrus nom. n., a replacement name for the preoccupied snail genus Afrogyrus Brown & Mandahl-Barth, 1973 (Gastropoda : Planorbidae)

Africanogyrus nom. n., a replacement name for the preoccupied snail genus Afrogyrus Brown & Mandahl-Barth, 1973 (Gastropoda : Planorbidae)

A junior homonym was detected amongst freshwater snails genera and the following replacement name is proposed : Africanogyrus nom. n. for Afrogyrus Brown & Mandahl-Barth, 1973 [non Afrogyrus Brinck, 1955]. Accordingly, new combinations are herein proposed for the species currently included in th...

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Veröffentlicht in:African invertebrates 2007-12, Vol.48 (2), p.259-260
Hauptverfasser: Ozdikmen, Huseyin, Darilmaz, Mustafa C.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Afrotropical
Homonymy
Identification and classification
Mollusca
Names
Natural history
Planorbidae
Replacement name
Snails
Zoology
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Zusammenfassung:A junior homonym was detected amongst freshwater snails genera and the following replacement name is proposed : Africanogyrus nom. n. for Afrogyrus Brown & Mandahl-Barth, 1973 [non Afrogyrus Brinck, 1955]. Accordingly, new combinations are herein proposed for the species currently included in this genus : Africanogyrus coretus (de Blainville, 1826), comb. n.; A. crassilabrum (Morelet, 1860), comb. n.; A. rodriguezensis (Crosse, 1873), comb. n.; and A. starmuehlneri (Brown, 1980), comb. n.
ISSN:1681-5556
2305-2562