Pomacea aurostoma

Pomacea aurostoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

informal group Architaenioglossa

Superfamily: Ampullarioidea
Family: Ampullariidae
Genus: Pomacea
Subgenus: Pomacea
Species: P. aurostoma
Binomial name
Pomacea aurostoma
(Lea, 1856)

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

The native distribution of P. aurostoma is Colombia and Venezuela.[2][3]

References

  1. 1 2 Pastorino, G. & Darrigan, G. (2011). "Pomacea aurostoma". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
  2. ↑ Simone, L. R. L. (2006). Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Brazil. São Paulo, Brazil: EGB, Fapesp. p. 390. ISBN 85-906670-0-6.
  3. ↑ 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.


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