Pomacea dolioides

Species of gastropod

Pomacea dolioides

Apertural view of a shell of Pomacea dolioides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | Architaenioglossa
Family:  | Ampullariidae
Genus:  | Pomacea
Species:  |

P. dolioides

Binomial name
Pomacea dolioides

(Reeve, 1856)

Pomacea dolioides is a South American species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.[1] It was identified by Lovell Augustus Reeve in 1856.[2]

## Distribution

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The native distribution of this snail is Brazil.[3]

## References

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1. ^ Global Biodiversity Information Facility website, Pomacea dolioides
2. ^ World Registry of Marine Species website, ID 349482
3. ^ ResearchGate website, Morphology of Pomacea-Dolioides Shell

## External links

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* Biodiversity Library website, Illustrations of the Shells of Mulloscous Animals, Vol X, by L. A. Reeve (1856) (online copy)

Taxon identifiers

Pomacea dolioides|

* Wikidata: Q3228554
* BOLD: 212345
* GBIF: 8052345
* NCBI: 527797
* Open Tree of Life: 64317

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