Published August 10, 2024 | Version v1
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Gyraulus costulatus

  • 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.

Notes

Published as part of Rapalai, Boikhutso Lerato, 2024, An annotated checklist of molluscs recorded from Botswana, pp. 15-44 in Indago 41 on page 26, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13132605

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Additional details

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.