''Hovorbis rodriguezensis'' is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

of air-breathing

freshwater snail Freshwater snails are gastropod mollusks which live in fresh water. There are many different families. They are found throughout the world in various habitats, ranging from ephemeral pools to the largest lakes, and from small seeps and springs ...

, an aquatic

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.MolluscaBase (2018). Hovorbis rodriguezensis (Crosse, 1873). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1245309 on 2019-01-15

Distribution

This species is

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Mauritius Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label=Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It incl ...

. This species' generic name was first changed to '' Africanogyrus'' in 2007.

References

* Brown D.S. (1994). Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance. London: Taylor and Francis, 607 p.

External links

Crosse H. (1873). Diagnoses molluscorum novorum. Journal de Conchyliologie. 21: 136-144.
rodriguezensis Gastropods described in 1873 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Endemic fauna of Mauritius Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Planorbidae-stub