Afrogyrus

Taxobox
name = Afrogyrus


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Basommatophora
familia = Planorbidae
genus = "Afrogyrus"

"Afrogyrus" is a genus of gastropod in the Planorbidae family. It contains the following species:
* "Afrogyrus rodriguezensis"
* "Afrogyrus starmuehlneri"

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.

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.