Ceratophallus
| Ceratophallus | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Hygrophila |
| Superfamily: | Planorboidea |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Genus: | Ceratophallus Brown & Mandahl-Barth, 1973[1] |
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.
- 1 2 3 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.
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