Africanogyrus, Özdikmen & Darılmaz, 2007

Özdikmen, Hüseyin & Darılmaz, Mustafa C., 2007, Africanogyrus nom. n., a replacement name for the preoccupied snail genus Afrogyrus Brown & Mandahl-Barth, 1973 (Gastropoda: Planorbidae), African Invertebrates 48 (2) : -

Family Planorbidae Rafinesque, 1815

Genus Africanogyrus nom. n.

Afrogyrus Brown & Mandahl-Barth, 1973: 290 (Mollusca: Gastropoda : Pulmonata: Basommatophora: Planorbidae ) [non Afrogyrus Brinck, 1955: 51 ( Insecta : Coleoptera : Adephaga: Gyrinidae )].

Etymology: From Africa and the ending - gyrus, derived from the genus name Afrogyrus . Remarks on nomenclatural change: The name Afrogyrus Brown & Mandahl-Barth, 1973 was established for the African freshwater snail genus with the type species Planorbis coretus de Blainville, 1826 (Gastropoda) . Afrogyrus Brown & MandahlBarth, 1973 is still used as a valid genus name in the family Planorbidae (e.g. Brown 1980, 1994, 1996, 2001). Currently, this genus includes four species:African Afrogyrus coretus (de Blainville, 1826) , A. crassilabrum (Morelet, 1860) and A. starmuehlneri Brown, 1980 from Madagascar, and A. rodriguezensis (Crosse, 1873) from Mauritius (Rodrigues I.).

Nevertheless the name Afrogyrus is already preoccupied. Brinck (1955) established a whirligig beetle subgenus Afrogyrus (with the type species Gyrinus caffer Aubé, 1838 ) in the genus Aulonogyrus Motschulsky, 1853 ( Coleoptera : Gyrinidae ). This is also still used as a valid genus name in Gyrinidae (e.g. Löbl & Smetana 2003).

Thus, the name Afrogyrus Brown & Mandahl-Barth, 1973 is a junior homonym of the name Afrogyrus Brinck, 1955 . In accordance with Article 60 ( ICZN 1999), we propose the name Africanogyrus as a replacement name for Afrogyrus Brown & Mandahl-Barth, 1973 [non Afrogyrus Brinck, 1955 ].

Species included: Africanogyrus coretus (de Blainville, 1826) , comb. n.; Africanogyrus crassilabrum (Morelet, 1860) , comb. n.; Africanogyrus rodriguezensis (Crosse, 1873) , comb. n.; and Africanogyrus starmuehlneri ( Brown, 1980) , comb. n.

Note: The full synonymy for the above species is given by Brown (1994).