Potadoma buttikoferi

Species of gastropod

Potadoma buttikoferi

Conservation status

Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1]

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Family:  | Pachychilidae
Genus:  | Potadoma
Species:  |

P. buttikoferi

Binomial name
Potadoma buttikoferi

(Schepman, 1888)[2]

Synonyms[1]

Melania buttikoferi Schepman, 1888

Potadoma buttikoferi is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Pachychilidae.

## Distribution

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This species occurs in:

* Liberia

The type locality is "on rocks in the St. Paul's River near Bavia", Liberia.[2]

## References

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1. ^ a b Van Damme, D. (2020). "Potadoma buttikoferi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T165399A151144400. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T165399A151144400.en.
2. ^ a b Schepman M. M. (1888). "Zoological researches in Liberia. List of Mollusca, with descriptions of new species". Notes from the Leyden Museum 10: 245-252, page 249, plate 10, figure 5.

Taxon identifiers

Potadoma buttikoferi|

* Wikidata: Q5502061
* CoL: 4M35N
* GBIF: 5782581
* iNaturalist: 110174
* IUCN: 165399
* Open Tree of Life: 4960551
* WoRMS: 1061127

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