Asolene
| Asolene | |
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| A drawing of an apertural view of the shell of Asolene petiti | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Ampullarioidea |
| Family: | Ampullariidae |
| Genus: | Asolene d'Orbigny, 1838 |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 7 species | |
Asolene is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.
The distribution of the genus Asolene includes South America.[1]
Species
There are seven[1] species within the genus Asolene:
Subgenus Asolene
- Asolene petiti (Crosse, 1891)[1]
- Asolene platae (Maton, 1809) - type species[1]
- Asolene pulchella (Anton, 1839)[1]
- Asolene spixi (d'Orbigny, 1837)[1]
Subgenus Pomella Gray, 1847[2]
- Asolene americana (v. Ihering, 1919)[1]
- Asolene fairchildy (Clench, 1933)[1]
- Asolene megastoma (Sowerby, 1825)[1]
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