Afrogyrorbis natalensis

30. Afrogyrorbis natalensis (Krauss, 1848) Distribution and year: Okwa River, Ghanzi District N/A (Connolly 1939); Okavango Delta 2000 (Appleton et al. 2003). Geographic range: Botswana, Burundi, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Habitat: Freshwater. Notes: The species is distributed across the southern and eastern parts of sub-Saharan Africa (Appleton 2002) and occurs in both permanent and ephemeral water bodies, usually in high densities (Brown 2001). Type locality: Umgeni Valley, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (Krauss 1848). Sources: Connolly (1939: 490, as Planorbis natalensis, a subfossil record); van Bruggen (1966 a: 109, as Anisus natalensis); Brown (2001: 62); Appleton (2002: 90, as Ceratophallus natalensis); Appleton et al. (2003: 58–68, as Ceratophallus natalensis); GBIF (2023 b). Conservation status: Least Concern.