Pomacea auriformis

Short description: Species of snail

Pomacea auriformis

Scientific classification
(disputed)
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:  | Ampullarioidea
Family:  | Ampullariidae
Subfamily:  | Pomaceinae
Genus:  | Pomacea
Species:  |

P. auriformis

Binomial name
Pomacea auriformis

Reeve, 1856

Synonyms[1]

* Ampullaria auriformis Reeve, 1856 (original combination)
* Pomacea (Pomacea) auriformis (Reeve, 1856) · accepted, alternate representation

Pomacea auriformis is a species of freshwater snail in the family Ampullariidae, described by Lovell Augustus Reeve in 1856 as Ampullaria auriformis.[1] Its distribution is along the Caribbean coast of Central America.[2] There has been debate over whether this species may be a subspecies of Ampullaria hopetonensis.[3]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Pomacea auriformis (Reeve, 1856)". https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=741376.
2. ↑ Thompson, Fred (2011-01-01). "An annotated checklist and bibliography of the land and freshwater snails of Mexico and Central America". Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 50. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228981068.
3. ↑ Cowie, R.; Thiengo, S. (2003). "The apple snails of the Americas (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Asolene, Felipponea, Marisa, Pomacea, Pomella): A nomenclatural and type catalog" (in en). Malacologia.

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