Animalz

Afrocyclus

  • Afrocyclus bhaca

    The shell is very depressed and discoidal; the spire is almost flat and sometimes concave. The aperture is circular. The umbilicus is very wide, exposing all the whorls. In the mistbelt forest at Ngele, it has been collected in leaf litter and under logs. It is recorded from Ngele Forest, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

  • Afrocyclus exsertus

    The spire is moderately exserted, and the protoconch is not mammillate. The aperture is circular. The umbilicus is wide and deep, exposing all the whorls. It inhabits leaf litter in indigenous Scarp Forest on steep, rocky slopes. Recent specimens are recorded from small remaining indigenous forest patches inland of Umtentwini and Umzumbe in southern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

  • Afrocyclus oxygala

    The shell is depressed and discoidal, with a low spire and an acutely mammillate, tilted apex. The aperture is circular. The umbilicus is very wide, exposing all the whorls. It inhabits Eastern Cape Escarpment Thicket associated with river valleys. It is known from the Bedford and Somerset East areas at the southern end of the Great Escarpment in Eastern Cape, South Africa.

  • Afrocyclus potteri

    The shell is depressed and discoidal, with a low spire. The embryonic shell is strongly malleate. The umbilicus is very wide, exposing all the whorls. It inhabits medium-altitude Transkei Mistbelt forests of the first escarpment in the interior of Transkei and in the Kei River Valley. It is known from the interior of Transkei and the Kei River Valley, Eastern Cape, South Africa.