Ceratophallus

Ceratophallus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Panpulmonata; clade Hygrophila
Superfamily:	Planorboidea
Family:	Planorbidae
Genus:	Ceratophallus; Brown & Mandahl-Barth, 1973

Ceratophallus is a genus of freshwater air-breathing snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids. All species in this genus have sinistral or left-coiling shells. Snails in this genus are found in Africa and some Indian Ocean islands.

Species[]

Species within this genus include:

(Nelson)^[2]
Ceratophallus kisumiensis (Preston, 1912)
Ceratophallus natalensis (Krauss)^[2]
Ceratophallus socotrensis (Godwin-Austen, 1883)
Brown, 2001^[2]

References[]

^ Brown D. S. & Mandahl-Barth G. (1973). "Two new genera of Planorbidae from Africa and Madagascar". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 40(4): 287-302.
^ ^a ^b ^c Brown D. S. (2001). "Taxonomy, biogeography and phylogeny of the non-lacustrine African freshwater snails belonging to the genera Ceratophallus and Afrogyrus (Mollusca: Planorbidae)". Journal of Zoology 255(1): 55-82. doi:10.1017/S095283690100111X.

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[1] Brown D. S. & Mandahl-Barth G. (1973). "Two new genera of Planorbidae from Africa and Madagascar". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 40(4): 287-302.

[Brown_2001-2] Brown D. S. (2001). "Taxonomy, biogeography and phylogeny of the non-lacustrine African freshwater snails belonging to the genera Ceratophallus and Afrogyrus (Mollusca: Planorbidae)". Journal of Zoology 255(1): 55-82. doi:10.1017/S095283690100111X.

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