Cecilioides gokweana (O. Böttger, 1870 )

Rapalai, Boikhutso Lerato, 2024, An annotated checklist of molluscs recorded from Botswana, Indago: Investigating nature and humanity in Africa (Oxford, England) 41 (10), pp. 15-44 : 29

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Cecilioides gokweana (O. Böttger, 1870 )
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51. Cecilioides gokweana (O. Böttger, 1870) View in CoL

Distribution and year: Gokwe River 1869 ( BÖttger 1870).

Geographic range: Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa.

Habitat: Terrestrial.

Notes: The species is ubiquitous in Southern Africa, especially in semi-arid regions (van Bruggen & Appleton 1977) and common in various habitats such as forests, bush thickets and coastal woodland ( Herbert & Kilburn 2004).

Type locality: Gokwe River (22°S 28°E, tributary of Motloutse River), Botswana ( BÖttger 1870) GoogleMaps .

Sources: BÖttger (1870: 47, as Cionella gokweana ); Connolly (1912: 207; 1939: 370, both as Cecilioides gokweanus ); van Bruggen (1966 a: 109; 1966 b: 351, both as Cecilioides gokweanus ); van Bruggen & Appleton (1977: 23, as Cecilioides gokweanus ); Herbert & Kilburn (2004: 127, as Cecilioides gokweanus ).

Conservation status: Not Evaluated.

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