Segmentorbis angustus
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
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.
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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/03F0DD67D301FFBDFCB0043AFDBCFD44 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/263454553 (URL)
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-