Lymnaea (Radix) natalensis Krauss, 1848

Schultheiss, Roland, Ndeo, Oscar Wembo, Malikwisha, Meni, Marek, Carina, Bössneck, Ulrich & Albrecht, Christian, 2011, Freshwater molluscs of the Eastern Congo: notes on taxonomy, biogeography and conservation, African Invertebrates 52 (2), pp. 265-284 : 271

Lymnaea (Radix) natalensis Krauss, 1848

Fig. 2H

Limnaeus natalensis: Krauss 1848: 85 , pl. 5, fig. 15. (Type locality: “In stagnis natalensibus”, South

Africa)

Taxonomic remarks: Hubendick (1951) synonymized all hitherto described species in Africa under L. natalensis . Recent molecular phylogenetic studies have indicated that L. natalensis belongs to the genus or subgenus Radix ( Albrecht et al. 2008; Correa et al. 2010). In the absence of a thorough generic revision of the Lymnaeidae , we tentatively refer here to L. (Radix) natalensis .

Habitat description: The species was found in a small, slowly flowing creek next to a cornfield (18; Fig. 4H) and within irrigation channels (1, 20). The substrate comprised clay, sapropel and detritus.

Collecting sites: 1, 18, 20.

IUCN Red List Category: Least Concern ( Appleton et al. 2009 c).