Pomacea lineata
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| Subgenus: | Pomacea
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| Species: | P. lineata
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| Pomacea lineata (Spix, 1827)
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Pomacea lineata is a species of a freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.
Distribution
This species occurs in Brazil.
Human use
Pomacea lineata is used as a zootherapeutical product for the treatment of asthma, sprains, boils and ulcer in traditional Brazilian medicine in the Northeast of Brazil.[2]
References
- ^ Template:IUCN2013.2
- ^ Alves R. R. N. (2009). "Fauna used in popular medicine in Northeast Brazil". Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 5: 1. doi:10.1186/1746-4269-5-1.
External links
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- Pomacea (Pomacea) lineata. The apple snail website.
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