Pomacea aldersoni

Species of gastropod

Pomacea aldersoni

Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]

Scientific 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.

Taxon identifiers

Pomacea aldersoni|

* Wikidata: Q16988359
* CoL: 4LQ8F
* GBIF: 7882092
* iNaturalist: 151004
* IUCN: 189456
* Open Tree of Life: 6353671
* WoRMS: 741145

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