Afrodonta Melvill & Ponsonby 1908
Creators: name: Herbert, David G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Charopidae
Afrodonta

description: Key to species of Afrodonta
1 Parietal dentition absent ..................................................................................................................... 2
– Parietal dentition present ................................................................................................................... 3
2 Palatal region with a thin, upwardly angled, trigonal lamella; baso-columellar region with two denticles, one much smaller than the other ................ Af. inhluzaniensis leptolamellaris subsp. nov.
– Palatal region with a stout lamella; baso-columellar region with a single well-developed denticle ................................................................. Af. inhluzaniensis inhluzaniensis (Burnup, 1912)
3 Parietal region with a single denticle/lamella .................................................................................... 4
– Parietal region with two denticles/lamellae ....................................................................................... 6
4 Aperture lacking further dentition .................................................. Af. unilamellaris Connolly, 1933
– Palatal and/or baso-columellar dentition present ............................................................................... 5
5 Palatal region lacking dentition or if present then parietal lamella strong and posteriorly bifid ................................................................................. Af. bilamellaris Melvill & Ponsonby, 1908
– Palatal region with additional dentition, parietal lamella simple .......................... Af. mystica sp. nov.
6 Aperture lacking further dentition or with only a weak baso-columellar denticle .............................. .................................................................................................................... Af. connollyi Solem, 1970
– Palatal dentition present ..................................................................................................................... 7
7 Parietal lamellae weak; palatal region with 1–3 axially aligned pairs of rounded denticles; no baso-columellar dentition ..................................................................................... Af. geminodonta sp. nov.
– Parietal lamellae well developed; baso-columellar region with a well-developed denticle. ............. 8
8 Palatal region with a single rounded, thickened, sub-peripheral nodule, plus a narrow, deep-set, subsutural denticle ............................................................................................. Af. pentodon sp. nov.
– Palatal region with three or more in-running, ridge-like denticles .................................................... 9
9 Palatal region with three denticles ........................................................ Af. farquhari (Burnup, 1912)
– Palatal region with 6–7 denticles .............................................. Af. novemlamellaris (Burnup, 1912)
description: Published as part of Herbert, David G., 2020, Revision of the aperturally dentate Charopidae (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora) of southern Africa - genus Afrodonta s. lat., with description of five new genera, twelve new species and one new subspecies, pp. 1-55 in European Journal of Taxonomy 629 on pages 4-5, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.629, http://zenodo.org/record/3762280