Pomacea aurostoma
Appearance
Pomacea aurostoma | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Architaenioglossa |
Family: | Ampullariidae |
Genus: | Pomacea |
Species: | P. aurostoma
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Binomial name | |
Pomacea aurostoma (Lea, 1856)
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Pomacea aurostoma 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
[edit]The native distribution of P. aurostoma is Colombia and Venezuela.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Pastorino, G.; Darrigan, G. (2011). "Pomacea aurostoma". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T189558A8748382. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T189558A8748382.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ Simone, L. R. L. (2006). Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Brazil. São Paulo, Brazil: EGB, Fapesp. p. 390. ISBN 85-906670-0-6.
- ^ 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.