Segmentorbis
| Segmentorbis | |
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| Drawing of apertural and umbilical view of the shell of Segmentorbis kanisaensis. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Genus: | Segmentorbis Mandahl-Barth, 1954[1] |
| Type species | |
| Segmentina angusta Jickeli, 1874 | |
| Subgenera[2] | |
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Segmentorbis is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
Distribution
[edit]Distribution of Segmentorbis include Africa.
Species
[edit]Species within this genus include:[2]
- Segmentorbis angustus (Jickeli, 1874)
- Segmentorbis eussoensis (Preston, 1912)
- Segmentorbis kanisaensis (Preston, 1914)
- Segmentorbis planodiscus (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1897)
Species no longer in synonymy:
- Segmentorbis carringtoni Azevedo, de Medeiros, & M. C. Faro, 1961; accepted as Lentorbis carringtoni (Azevedo, de Medeiros, & M. C. Faro, 1961)
References
[edit]- ↑ Mandahl-Barth (1954). "The freshwater Mollusks of Uganda and adjacent territories". Annalen van het Koninklijk Museum van Belgisch - Congo = Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge. (Sér. 8) Sciences zoologiques. 32: 92.
- 1 2 "Segmentorbis Mandahl-Barth, 1954". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species.
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