Hovorbis coretus (Blainville, 1826)

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29. Hovorbis coretus (Blainville, 1826)

Distribution and year: Kwando River, pool near Kongola Bridge [SMWN76374] 1986 ( Brown et al. 1992); pool near Linyanti Channel [SMWN76309] 1986 ( Brown et al. 1992); Thamalakane River, Okavango Delta [ETD4294] 1984 ( Brown et al. 1992); Okavango Delta 2000 ( Appleton et al. 2003).

Geographic range: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Habitat: Freshwater.

Notes: The species inhabits rivers, springs and lakes across Africa ( Albrecht et al. 2018 b), including the tropical regions ( Brown 2001).

Type locality: Podor , Senegal (Blainville 1826) .

Sources: Brown et al. (1992: 28); Appleton (2002: 90); Appleton et al. (2003: 58–68) (all as Afrogyrus coretus ); GBIF (2023 b).

Conservation status: Least Concern. Possibly under threat due to habitat degradation resulting from clearing of vegetation ( Albrecht et al. 2018 b).