Biology:Ceratophallus
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Short description: Genus of gastropods
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| Genus: | Ceratophallus Brown & Mandahl-Barth, 1973[1]
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Ceratophallus is a genus of freshwater air-breathing snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids. All species in this genus have sinistral or left-coiling shells. Snails in this genus are found in Africa and some Indian Ocean islands.
Species
Species within this genus include:
- Ceratophallus apertus
- Ceratophallus bicarinatus
- Ceratophallus coretus
- Ceratophallus crassus
- Ceratophallus faini
- Ceratophallus gibbonsi (Nelson)[2]
- Ceratophallus kisumiensis (Preston, 1912)
- Ceratophallus natalensis (Krauss)[2]
- Ceratophallus pelecystoma
- Ceratophallus socotrensis (Godwin-Austen, 1883)
- Ceratophallus yesimit Brown, 2001[2]
References
- ↑ Brown D. S. & Mandahl-Barth G. (1973). "Two new genera of Planorbidae from Africa and Madagascar". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 40(4): 287-302.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 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 255(1): 55-82. doi:10.1017/S095283690100111X.
External links
- GBIF info here: [1][yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
Wikidata ☰ Q5063796 entry
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