Gyraulus costulatus
Authors/Creators
- 1. Botswana National Museum, 331 Independence Avenue, Gaborone, Botswana School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Perth, WA, Australia
Description
33. Gyraulus costulatus (Krauss, 1848)
Distribution and year: Boro River, Nxaraga Lagoon, Chief’s Island Maun [ETD4294] 1984 (Brown et al. 1992); Okavango Delta, Maun N/A (Brown & Van Eeden 1969).
Geographic range: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Habitat: Freshwater.
Notes: The species is ubiquitous across Africa, including the tropical regions (Albrecht et al. 2018 a). The molluscs dwell on vegetation and stones in rivers, lakes and dams (Brown 1994).
Type locality: Umgeni Valley, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (Krauss 1848).
Sources: Brown et al. (1992: 28); Appleton & Miranda (2015: 130).
Conservation status: Least Concern.
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.13132605 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFC9A51FD30AFFB1FF80032CFF83FFD4 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/716CBDAD-9ACA-4820-A6C4-93158C907654 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03F0DD67D301FFBAFCB002FAFB5AFB04 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/263454557 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Krauss
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Family
- Planorbidae
- Genus
- Gyraulus
- Species
- costulatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gyraulus costulatus (Krauss, 1848) sec. Rapalai, 2024
References
- KRAUSS, F. 1848. Die sudafrikanischen Mollusken. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken des Kap- und Natallandes und zur geographischen Verbreitung derselben, mit Beschreibung und Abbildung der neuen Arten. Stuttgart: Ebner & Seubert. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13801704
- BROWN, D. S., CURTIS, B. A., BETHUNE, S. & APPLETON, C. C. 1992. Freshwater snails of East Caprivi and the lower Okavango River basin in Namibia and Botswana. Hydrobiologia 246: 9-40. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00005620
- BROWN, D. S. & VAN EEDEN, J. A. 1969. The molluscan genus Gyraulus (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) in Southern Africa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 48 (3): 305-331. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1969.tb00715.x
- ALBRECHT, C., CLEWING, C., APPLETON, C., GHAMIZI, M., JORGENSEN, A., KRISTENSEN, T. K., LANGE, C. & STENSGAARD, A. - S. 2018 a. Gyraulus costulatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e. T 165767 A 120115499. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/165767/120115499
- BROWN, D. S. 1994. Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance. London, Taylor and Francis.
- APPLETON, C. C. & MIRANDA, N. 2015. Molluscs. In: Griffiths, C., Day, J. A. & Picker, M. (Eds), Freshwater life: A field guide to the plants and animals of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Struik Nature, pp. 124-137.