Pomacea
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| Pomacea bridgesii | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Ampullarioidea |
| Family: | Ampullariidae |
| Subfamily: | Ampullariinae |
| Tribe: | Ampullariini |
| Genus: | Pomacea (Perry, 1810)[1] |
Pomacea is a genus of freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae. As Pomacea or sometimes incorrectly Ampullarius it is commonly sold as "[color] mystery snail" in aquariums in the United States.
[edit] Species
Species in the genus Pomacea include:
subgenus Effusa Jousseaume, 1889
- Pomacea glauca (Linné, 1758)[2]
- Pomacea cumingi (Reeve, 1843)[2]
subgenus Pomacea Perry, 1810
- Pomacea bridgesii (Reeve, 1856)[2]
- Pomacea canaliculata (Lamarck, 1819)[2]
- Pomacea catamarcensis (Sowerby, 1874)[2]
- Pomacea columellaris (Gould, 1848)[2]
- Pomacea cyclostoma (Spix, 1827)[2]
- Pomacea decussate (Moricand)[2]
- Pomacea diffusa Blume, 1957[2]
- Pomacea doliodes (Reeve, 1856)[2]
- Pomacea dysoni (Hanley, 1854)[2]
- Pomacea erogata (Fisher & Crosse, 1890)[2]
- Pomacea flagellata (Say, 1827)[2]
- Pomacea gigas / Pomacea maculata (Perry, 1810)[2]
- Pomacea hanleyi (Reeve, 1856)[2]
- Pomacea haustrum (Reeve, 1856)[2]
- Pomacea insularum (D'Orbigny, 1839)[2]
- Pomacea lineata (Spix, 1827)[2]
- Pomacea livescens (Reeve, 1856)[2]
- Pomacea paludosa (Say, 1829)[2]
- Pomacea papyracea (Spix, 1827)[2]
- Pomacea scalaris (D'Orbigny, 1835)[2]
- Pomacea urceus (Müller, 1774)[2]
subgenus ?
- Pomacea falconensis Pain & Arias, 1958[3]
- Pomacea poeyana (Pilsbry, 1927)[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Perry (1810). Arcana, sign. G5.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w "Pomacea". The apple snail website, Accessed 12 May 2011.
- ^ Cazzaniga N. J. (April 2002) "Old species and new concepts in the taxonomy of Pomacea (Gastropoda: Ampullariidae)". Biocell 26(1): 71-81. PubMed PDF
- ^ Vázquez A. A. & Perera S. (2010). "Endemic Freshwater molluscs of Cuba and their conservation status". Tropical Conservation Science 3(2): 190-199. HTM, PDF.
[edit] External links
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Wikispecies has information related to: Pomacea |
- Pomacea at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
- applesnails of Florida, Pomacea spp. on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site
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