Pomacea cumingii

Pomacea cumingii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:	Ampullarioidea
Family:	Ampullariidae
Subfamily:	Pomaceinae
Genus:	Pomacea
Species:	P. cumingii
Binomial name
	Pomacea cumingii; P. P. King & Broderip, 1831
Synonyms
	Ampullaria cumingii P. P. King, 1832 (original combination); Pomacea cumingi (Reeve, 1843) · alternate spelling in some publications; Pomacea cumingii (Reeve, 1843); Pomacea (Pomacea) cumingii (P. P. King, 1832) · accepted, alternate representation;

Pomacea cumingii is a species of freshwater snail in the family Ampullariidae.^[1] It is native to Saboga.^[3] A non-native population has been found in Puerto Rico.^[2]

Two subspecies of P. cumingii are recognized:^[1] P. c. cumingii and P. c. sanjoseensis (Morrison, 1946). P. c. sanjoseensis is found only in a few small streams on Isla San José and is larger than the other subspecies.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Pomacea cumingii (P. P. King & Broderip, 1831)". MolluscaBase. 8 March 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
^ ^a ^b "an applesnail (Pomacea cumingii) - Species Profile". nas.er.usgs.gov. Retrieved 2022-01-12.
^ Cowie, Robert H.; Thiengo, Silvana (2003). "The apple snails of the Americas (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Asolene, Felipponea, Marisa, Pomacea, Pomella): A nomenclatural and type catalog". Malacologia. 45: 41–100. ISSN 0076-2997.
^ Morrison, Joseph Paul Eldred; Institution, Smithsonian (1946). The nonmarine mollusks of San Jose Island, with notes on those of Pedro Gonzalez, Pearl Islands, Panama. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.120498.

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[Mollusca-1] "Pomacea cumingii (P. P. King & Broderip, 1831)". MolluscaBase. 8 March 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2023.

[NAS-2] "an applesnail (Pomacea cumingii) - Species Profile". nas.er.usgs.gov. Retrieved 2022-01-12.

[3] Cowie, Robert H.; Thiengo, Silvana (2003). "The apple snails of the Americas (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Asolene, Felipponea, Marisa, Pomacea, Pomella): A nomenclatural and type catalog". Malacologia. 45: 41–100. ISSN 0076-2997.

[4] Morrison, Joseph Paul Eldred; Institution, Smithsonian (1946). The nonmarine mollusks of San Jose Island, with notes on those of Pedro Gonzalez, Pearl Islands, Panama. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.120498.

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