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Pomacea hollingsworthi

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Pomacea hollingsworthi
Scientific classification
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clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
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Pomacea
Species:
P. hollingsworthi
Binomial name
Pomacea hollingsworthi
(Pain, 1946)

Pomacea hollingsworthi 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]

Distribution

The native distribution of P. hollingsworthi is Colombia. It was described from fifteen specimens, collected in a swiftly flowing stream with a rocky bed near Bogota in February 1939.[2][3]

References

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  2. ^ Pain, T. (1946). "Two new species of Pila (= Ampullaria) from South America". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London: 180–181, pl. 6. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
  3. ^ Cowie R.H.; Thiengo S.C. (2003). "The apple snails of the Americas (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Asolene, Felipponea, Marisa, Pomacea, Pomella): A nomenclatural and type catalog". Malacologia. 45 (1): 41–100. Retrieved 27 March 2014. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |last-author-amp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)