Ceratophallus

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

  1. ^ 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. ^ a b c 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]
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