Afrogyrorbis natalensis ( Krauss, 1848 )

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30. Afrogyrorbis natalensis ( Krauss, 1848)

Distribution and year: Okwa River, Ghanzi District N/A ( Connolly 1939); Okavango Delta 2000 ( Appleton et al. 2003).

Geographic range: Botswana, Burundi, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Habitat: Freshwater.

Notes: The species is distributed across the southern and eastern parts of sub-Saharan Africa ( Appleton 2002) and occurs in both permanent and ephemeral water bodies, usually in high densities ( Brown 2001).

Type locality: Umgeni Valley , KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa ( Krauss 1848) .

Sources: Connolly (1939: 490, as Planorbis natalensis , a subfossil record); van Bruggen (1966 a: 109, as Anisus natalensis ); Brown (2001: 62); Appleton (2002: 90, as Ceratophallus natalensis ); Appleton et al. (2003: 58–68, as Ceratophallus natalensis ); GBIF (2023 b).

Conservation status: Least Concern.