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Pomacea aldersoni

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Pomacea aldersoni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Family: Ampullariidae
Genus: Pomacea
Species:
P. aldersoni
Binomial name
Pomacea aldersoni
(Pain, 1946)

Pomacea aldersoni 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]

Etymology

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P. aldersoni is named after the British conchologist and malacologist E. G. Alderson, who authored a revision of the genus Ampullaria in 1925.[2]

Distribution

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The native distribution of P. aldersoni is Ecuador. It was described from thirteen specimens which were collected in Santa Barbara, about 272 km SE. of Quito, in 1939.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b Lasso, C.; Correoso, M. (2016). "Pomacea aldersoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T189456A58626297. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T189456A58626297.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b Pain, T. (1946). "Two new species of Pila (= Ampullaria) from South America". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London: 180–181, pl. 6. Archived from the original on 27 March 2014. Retrieved 27 March 2014.


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