Pomacea bridgesii
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| Pomacea bridgesii in aquarium | |
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NE[1]
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Ampullarioidea |
| Family: | Ampullariidae |
| Genus: | Pomacea |
| Subgenus: | Pomacea |
| Species: | P. bridgesii |
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| Pomacea bridgesii (Reeve, 1856) |
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- See also: Pomacea diffusa, formerly known as Pomacea bridgesii.
Pomacea bridgesii, common names the Spike-topped apple snail or Mystery snail, is a South American species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae.
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[edit] Subspecies
- Pomacea bridgesii bridgesii (Reeve, 1856)
- Pomacea bridgesii diffusa (Blume, 1957)
[edit] Anatomy
Mystery snails possess structurally complex eyes at the tip of a cephalic eyestalk. These snails possess the ability to regenerate the eye completely after amputation through the mid-eyestalk. They are born with both gills and lungs. [2]
[edit] Distribution
The native distribution of this snail is Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Peru.
[edit] Non-indigenous distribution
It is non-indigenous in Hawaii since 1960 (Pomacea bridgesii diffusa), southeast Asia since 1980s, and Florida since the early 1980s (Pomacea bridgesii diffusa).[3]
[edit] Offspring
Mystery snails lay their eggs above the water line, which take 2–4 weeks to hatch. They can have as many as two-hundred offspring.
[edit] Human relevance
It is often kept as an aquarium pet because of its wide range of shell colors, lack of appetite for live plants, and ease of care.
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