Pomacea pealiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Ampullarioidea
Family:
Ampullariidae
Genus:
Pomacea
Subgenus:
Pomacea
Species:
P. pealiana
Binomial name
Pomacea pealiana
(Lea, 1838)

Pomacea pealiana is a South American species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.[1]

Distribution

P. pealiana is endemic to Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Panama[2] and Brazil.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Pastorino, G.; Darrigan, G. (2012). "Pomacea pealiana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T203563A2768474. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T203563A2768474.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Cowie R.H. & Thiengo S.C. (2003). "The apple snails of the Americas (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Asolene, Felipponea, Marisa, Pomacea, Pomella): A nomenclatural and type catalog". Malacologia. 45 (1): 41–100. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
  3. ↑ Simone, L. R. L. (2006). Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Brazil. São Paulo: FAPESP. ISBN 85-906670-0-6.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.