Published August 10, 2024 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Segmentorbis angustus

  • 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

35. Segmentorbis angustus (Jickeli, 1874)

Distribution and year: Pools in Kwando flood plain near Sitwa [SWMN76522] 1986 (Brown et al. 1992); “Botletle” (Boteti) River at “Chinoko” (Chanoga) [ETD4295] 1984 (Brown et al. 1992); Boro River, Nxaraga Lagoon, Chief’s Island [ETD4295] 1984 (Brown et al. 1992); Okavango Delta 2000 (Appleton et al. 2003).

Geographic range: Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Habitat: Freshwater.

Notes: This species is widespread, mainly in permanent waterbodies, across Africa (Brown 1994).

Type locality: “ Mekerka [Mek’erka] in Toquor, Hamaszen province ”, Eritrea, “ White Nile ”, South Sudan, “and the Gazelle River ”, Kenia (Jickeli 1874).

Sources: Brown et al. (1992: 29); Appleton et al. (2003: 58–68); GBIF (2023 b).

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 pages 26-27, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13132605

Files

Files (1.5 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:0fc866b823cff3aad65df5fcf2364d19
1.5 kB Download

System files (14.5 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:69e5cc5a8d4e2d00a1bba07914209417
14.5 kB Download

Linked records

Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Jickeli
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Family
Planorbidae
Genus
Segmentorbis
Species
angustus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Segmentorbis angustus (Jickeli, 1874) sec. Rapalai, 2024

References

  • JICKELI, C. F. 1874. Fauna der Land- und SUsswasser-Mollusken Nord-Ost-Afrika's. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich Leopoldinisch-Carolinisch Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher 37 (1): 1-352. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12577303
  • 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
  • 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:
  • BROWN, D. S. 1994. Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance. London, Taylor and Francis.
  • GBIF. 2023 b. Occurrence download. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility. https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/download/0257952-