Hovorbis coretus

29. Hovorbis coretus (Blainville, 1826) Distribution and year: Kwando River, pool near Kongola Bridge [SMWN76374] 1986 (Brown et al. 1992); pool near Linyanti Channel [SMWN76309] 1986 (Brown et al. 1992); Thamalakane River, Okavango Delta [ETD4294] 1984 (Brown et al. 1992); Okavango Delta 2000 (Appleton et al. 2003). Geographic range: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Habitat: Freshwater. Notes: The species inhabits rivers, springs and lakes across Africa (Albrecht et al. 2018 b), including the tropical regions (Brown 2001). Type locality: Podor, Senegal (Blainville 1826). Sources: Brown et al. (1992: 28); Appleton (2002: 90); Appleton et al. (2003: 58–68) (all as Afrogyrus coretus); GBIF (2023 b). Conservation status: Least Concern. Possibly under threat due to habitat degradation resulting from clearing of vegetation (Albrecht et al. 2018 b).