Global InformationAfropomus balanoideus information
| Afropomus balanoideus | |
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| A drawing of an apertural view of the shell of Afropomus balanoideus | |
Conservation status
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 Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | Mollusca
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| Class: | Gastropoda
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| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Ampullarioidea
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| Family: | Ampullariidae
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| Subfamily: | Afropominae
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| Genus: | Afropomus Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927[2]
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| Species: | A. balanoideus
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| Binomial name | |
| Afropomus balanoideus (Gould, 1850)[3]
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Afropomus balanoidea is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails and their allies.
Afropomus balanoideus is the only species in the genus Afropomus.[4] Afropomus is the type genus of the subfamily Afropominae.[5]
Based on the anatomy, mainly that of the reproductive system, Afropomus appears to be a primitive genus within the Ampullariidae.[4] This basal position of Afropomus within Ampullariidae has also been confirmed by molecular phylogeny.[6]
- ^ Van Damme, D. (2020). "Afropomus balanoidea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T165386A151133502. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T165386A151133502.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ Pilsbry H. A. & Bequaert J. C. (1927). "The aquatic mollusks of the Belgian Congo, with a geographical and ecological account of Congo malacology". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 53(2): 69-602. PDF. page 171.
- ^ Gould A. A. (1850). "Dr. Gould exhibited to the Society a number of new species of shells from Africa, recently presented by Dr. Perkins". Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History III: 193-197. pages 196-197.
- ^ a b Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
- ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ^ Jørgensen A., Kristensen T. K. & Madsen H. (2008). "A molecular phylogeny of apple snails (Gastropoda, Caenogastropoda, Ampullariidae) with an emphasis on African species". Zoologica Scripta 37(3): 245-252. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2007.00322.x.