| Hovorbis starmuehlneri | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Endangered (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Genus: | Hovorbis |
| Species: | H. starmuehlneri |
| Binomial name | |
| Hovorbis starmuehlneri (Brown, 1980) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Afrogyrus starmuehlneri (Brown, 1980) | |
Hovorbis starmuehlneri is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Planorbidae the ram's horn snails and their allies.
Distribution
This species is endemic to Madagascar.
The original generic name was first changed to Africanogyrus in 2007.
References
- Van Damme, D. (2016). "Africanogyrus starmuehlneri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T619A91287776. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T619A91287776.en.
- MolluscaBase (2018). Hovorbis starmuehlneri (Brown, 1980). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1245307 on 2019-01-16
- 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. Archived from the original on 2008-01-05.
- Brown, D.S. (1980). New and little known gastropod species of fresh and brackish waters in Africa, Madagascar and Mauritius. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 46: 208-223. London.
- Brown D.S. (1994). Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance. London: Taylor and Francis, 607 p. page(s): 189
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Africanogyrus starmuehlneri | |
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