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Pettancylus victoriensis
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
34. Pettancylus victoriensis (B. Walker, 1912)
Distribution and year: Okavango Delta 2000 (Appleton et al. 2003).
Geographic range: Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe.
Habitat: Freshwater.
Notes: The molluscs are common in a variety of waterbodies such as rivers, streams and lakes (Kristensen et al. 2010 a). In the Okavango Delta, the species was collected underneath leaves in deeper parts of the lagoon (Appleton et al. 2003).
Type locality: Victoria Falls, Zambezi River, Zambia (Walker 1912).
Sources: Curtis (1998: 3, as Ferrissia victoriensis); Appleton et al. (2003: 58–68, as Ferrissia victoriensis); GBIF (2023 b).
Conservation status: Data Deficient.
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
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- B. Walker
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Family
- Planorbidae
- Genus
- Pettancylus
- Species
- victoriensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pettancylus victoriensis (Walker, 1912) sec. Rapalai, 2024
References
- WALKER, B. 1912. A revision of Ancylini of South Africa. The Nautilus 25 (12): 139-144. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/17978#page/173
- APPLETON, C. C., CURTIS, B. A., ALONSO, L. E. & KIPPING, J. 2003. Freshwater invertebrates of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. In: Alonso, L. E. & Nordin, L. A. (Eds), A rapid biological assessment of the aquatic ecosystems of the Okavango Delta, Botswana: High Water Survey. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment. Vol. 27. Washington, DC:
- KRISTENSEN, T. K., STENSGAARD, A. - S. & CURTIS, B. 2010 a. Pila occidentalis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e. T 17278 A 6916407. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/17278/6916407
- CURTIS, B. 1998. Aquatic invertebrates (Namibian Sector) and water-borne diseases of the Okavango River Basin. Luanda, Gaborone, Windhoek: Permanent Okavango River Basin Commission. http://the-eis.com/elibrary/search/2227
- GBIF. 2023 b. Occurrence download. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility. https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/download/0257952-